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- The second law of thermodynamics states
that complexity always increases.
And when we look at technology
and the way organizations use it today,
that rule is now more true than ever before.
In many cases, you see technology moving much faster
than the organizations there are utilizing them.
If you think about the analogy of a car,
if somebody told you you can drive a Ferrari
but it would have Toyota braking system,
you wouldn't feel confident in driving it
because the brakes don't match the speed.
The same is with technology with organizations today.
Today, an organization can have an IoT device connected
to the office,
a server connected in a data center,
it could have a container up in the cloud,
and it could have somebody working
on their phone from a Starbucks.
What we've done is to say,
"You can be within control and utilize that complexity."
Axonius's cyber security asset management platform
is really that control that allows you
to use that technology to its highest speed,
and also its ability to change directions quickly.
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In the past, organizations would have one type of device,
one operating system, one network,
one management tool, and each one of those things
now has a dozens of different variations,
which causes this great fragmentation of data.
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And when you think about
what is required to make an organization secure,
it's first of all understanding what it needs
to be secure and Axonius enables organizations
to understand all the devices and data they have.
Where is it?
How does it connect?
Who owns it? Why is it there?
- Cybersecurity begins with two very basic questions;
who is on your network, and what is on your network?
Well, at NASA in particular,
pretty much every day there was technology walking
into your network and walking out of your network.
NASA, at the time, had about 400,000 pieces of IT equipment
and 40,000 pieces of software on the network.
And so, when you can begin to answer the question,
what is on your network,
then you can begin to put into processes
to then mitigate the risks.
(bright music) - Today, organizations know
they will be breached.
That is the truth.
And the question is not if, but when.
- Many of you may remember, Target was hit by a breach.
The HVAC was used to navigate
into the system that held the information
of all of Target's customers
and their credit card information.
When you know what's on your network,
you could have taken that information
and made sure that you partitioned
your networks appropriately.
- So when we go to organizations,
we first of all show them exactly
what's really connected to their network
that they never saw before.
The second is, we show them, where are the gaps?
Now that you see, you can actually secure it.
And the third part is
automating that process and making sure
that the entire organization is secure over time.
- The ability to see the different swim lanes
of technology using a single tool
is a savings to a business.
You can start doing some very sophisticated analysis
that used to take many, many tools,
which is pretty critical when you're starting to deal
with risk mitigation.
(tones vibrating) - What's going on, everybody?
You are in the "Hacker Valley" studio
with your hosts, Ron and Chris.
- Yes, sir.
- "Hacker Valley" is our podcast.
It's also our media company where we're focused
on empowering and enlightening cybersecurity professionals
and technologists around the world.
- One of the biggest issues
in cybersecurity is the loss of focus on the fundamentals.
I'm a big sports fan,
and my favorite athlete is Michael Jordan.
And Michael Jordan said
that he can do all of these fancy moves
because of his intense focus on the fundamentals.
If we start to master some of the fundamentals,
including asset management,
including locking down and securing our networks,
we can start to move into the more interesting aspects,
like purple teaming,
threat hunting, vulnerability management,
and do the things that we were really excited to do
when we first learned about cyber security.
- This isn't something that's gonna disrupt operations.
There isn't a high learning curve,
so that's what we feel like we've done best
is really keep the practitioner
at the forefront of our mind,
so we could be as impactful as we possibly can.
(mellow music) - The security practitioners,
the people on the front lines of protecting organizations,
their job is immensely challenging,
and we're about helping them be heroes,
helping leverage their ability, their knowledge,
and making sure they have the tools in place
to fight the bad guys as easily
and as powerfully possible.
- Our vision for Axonius is to show everyone
around the world, companies and organizations,
that the asset management problem is solvable.
- Within the mission of controlling complexity,
we look to end up being the system of record
for the infrastructure of any organization
and on every level.
We're not gonna replace Batman,
but we want to give Batman
his tool belt to be able to fight the bad guys.
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