- 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 that 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,
you know, 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' cybersecurity 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.
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
dozens of different variations
which causes this great fragmentation of data.
And when you think about what is required
to make an organization secure,
it's first of all, understanding what 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.
- 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’ve 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 overtime.
- 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.
- ‘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 cybersecurity.
- 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.
- 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 as 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 wanna give Batman, you know, his toolbelt
to be able to fight the bad guys.