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What is this Axonius cybersecurity asset management platform that provides IT and security teams with a comprehensive and automated view of an organization’s assets?
In this article, we provide a briefing for IT Security practitioners who are researching the area of security asset management and are learning where Axonius fits into the landscape.
Axonius is a platform designed to help IT and security teams manage their assets and address cybersecurity challenges.
It works by connecting to hundreds of data sources to create an up-to-date inventory of devices, users, and SaaS apps.
This comprehensive inventory helps uncover gaps and identify deviations from policies, controls, and expectations. The platform then triggers automated response actions to address any identified issues.
Axonius applies a simple approach to address a decades-old challenge of cybersecurity asset management by correlating asset data from existing solutions.
The platform also helps with SaaS management and Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASMCyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on man…).
In summary, Axonius works by creating a comprehensive inventory of assets, identifying gaps and deviations from policies, and triggering automated response actions.
Read more about the Axonius Central Core Platform.
Axonius offers several features that benefit IT and security teams by providing a comprehensive view of an organization’s assets, uncovering gaps, and triggering automated response actions whenever devices, users, and SaaS apps deviate from policies, controls, and expectations [1].
Some of the key features of Axonius include:
Axonius’s platform offers several advantages, including:
The benefits of Axonius’s platform include:
In summary, Axonius’s platform offers several features, advantages, and benefits that help IT and security teams to control complexity, gain actionable visibility into all assets, and improve cyber hygiene and IT operations.
Companies fight entropy and chaos to control complexity by correlating asset data from existing devices and tools, providing an always up-to-date inventory, and uncovering gaps to automate actions.
The Axonius CAASMCyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on man… platform can be deployed in minutes, providing actionable visibility into all assets to improve cyber hygiene and IT operations.
Axonius has plenty of industry and customer-specific case studies on their Resources page.
Overall, Axonius’s case studies provide real-world examples of how their platform has helped organizations improve their asset management and security operations, and they can be useful for those considering implementing the platform in their own organization.
Here are two examples of Axonius case studies:
https://www.axonius.com/resources/lionbridge-case-study
https://www.axonius.com/resources/exclusive-networks-case-study
Job roles that are impacted by Axonius CAASMCyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on man… include:
By connecting to hundreds of data sources, Axonius gives IT and security teams a comprehensive inventory, uncovers gaps, and triggers automated response actions whenever devices, users, and SaaS apps deviate from policies, controls, and expectations.
Chief Information Officers are tasked with providing the infrastructure, systems, and tools needed to run the business. This often means future-proofing the IT strategy with procurement and lifecycle management policies, developing success metrics, and balancing business responsibilities with tools, vendors, and processes. See how Axonius helps balance these goals.
Chief Information Security Officers face an increasingly difficult set of responsibilities. They need complete asset visibility, but information is spread across disparate tools and data sources. They have to implement and ensure policies that minimize risk and deploy security controls using valuable resources that are often overwhelmed and reactive. Trust Axonius to ensure that investments in tools, people, and controls are aligned with strategic priorities.
Fragmented data sources, multiple device types and operating systems, and decentralized ownership mean visibility challenges for IT and infrastructure teams. Use Axonius to unify data from multiple sources on-premise and in the cloud. From alerts to CMDB reconciliation, data enrichment, and ticket automation, Axonius reduces manual work with custom response actions.
In SecOps, time is the enemy. Time triaging alerts, gathering asset data, and understanding vulnerabilities, patch level, access, ownership, and configuration changes. Use Axonius to get immediate, comprehensive context to inform investigations and respond with confidence.
How does the Axonius cybersecurity asset management platform map to standards such as CISA and NIST?
Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 23-01: “The binding operational directive issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) requires civilian agencies to identify and inventory assets and vulnerabilities on federal networks for the purpose of safeguarding federal information systems and they information they collect, process, and store.”
https://www.axonius.com/hubfs/pdfs/CISA_Binding_Operational_Directive.pdf
The NIST 800-53 guidance is the backbone of FISMA and FedRAMP, mandated compliance efforts aimed at reducing federal agencies’ (and non-government agencies doing business with federal agencies) attack surfaces and risk profiles. Mapping technical controls to NIST 8000-53 helps organizations move more swiftly and systematically toward compliance.
With over 1,000 controls to map, NIST 800-53 can seem laborious. But we’re here to help. Learn how to reach FISMA and FedRAMP more easily and accurately using Axonius.
In this white paper, you’ll learn:
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Learn Why Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASMCyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) focuses on man…) is on the Rise.
2022 Gartner Hype Cycle Security Operations CAASM
Axonius looks to help CISOs identify and manage asset fleets.
“While security teams are rightfully concerned with the increasing sophistication of modern threats, there is also another key area to track: which assets do they need to protect? As enterprises increase deployment across cloud, IoT and other environments, understanding which devices exist becomes difficult.”
Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform Overview | Axonius+
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