Modern organizations operate in a hyperconnected ecosystem where managed and unmanaged assets from IT to OT, IoT, and medical devices, expand the attack surface to unprecedented and previously unimagined levels. Visibility gaps, incomplete situational awareness, and siloed controls create blind spots attackers exploit.
Armis Centrix™, the AI-powered cyber exposure management platform, and Fortinet’s Security Fabric join forces to deliver unified visibility, security and control, across every asset and associated connections whether physical, virtual or hybrid. Together, the joint solution empowers organizations to see, assess, and secure everything that touches their organization, accelerating zero trust and delivering on the promise of continuous threat exposure management (CTEM).
The State of the Market
As organizations expand into the cloud, embrace remote operations, and connect everything from sensors to medical devices, their attack surface has significantly grown. Nearly 70% of the devices now present on enterprise networks are unmanaged or un-agentable; and they span IT, OT, IoT and IoMT systems that traditional security tools were never designed to see or protect. Adversaries are exploiting these blind spots, using unprotected or compromised devices as launchpads for lateral movement and operational disruption. Concurrently, regulators and corporate boards are demanding real-time visibility, measurable exposure reduction, and proof of cyber resilience. In this new reality, effective defense depends on integrated visibility, security and coordinated control. These are the capabilities that the Armis and Fortinet partnership delivers to the market.
The Challenge
- Fragmented visibility – Asset discovery tools miss unmanaged and ephemeral devices. Some assets cannot be seen at all because they are dormant and do not communicate over the network.
- Reactive operations – SOC teams drown in the regular deluge of alerts that have no context or prioritization that is relevant to organizational operations. The result is the continuous need to firefight security issues.
- Control gaps – Legacy tools can’t enforce policy across un-agentable and/or unmanaged assets. They also do not take into account potential attack paths when an attack is preparing to move laterally throughout the organization.
- Complex environments – Cloud, data center, and OT/ICS networks require coordinated enforcement that is often not possible due to point product limitations.
- Patch paralysis – Vulnerability backlogs grow faster than remediation capacity. The combination of the sheer volume combined with limited context, lack of prioritization and the likelihood that a maintenance window for patching may be unavailable, make the conditions right for a successfully executed attack.