Armis, which provides cyber exposure management to do cybersecurity, has expanded their partnership with cybersecurity vendor Fortinet. The expanded partnership combines the Armis Centrix cyber exposure management platform with the Fortinet Security Fabric to eliminate blind spots, automate enforcement, and strengthen cyber resilience. This enables organizations to simplify security programs and provide customers with the confidence that comes from a truly integrated defense.
“Customers are tired of managing fragmented security tools that don’t talk to each other,” said Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO of Armis. “They want best-in-class solutions that work together to solve complex, real-world problems head-on. Our partnership with Fortinet is about fundamentally simplifying security programs and providing security teams the confidence that comes from a truly integrated defense. It’s a game-changer for organizations to effectively preempt threats instead of constantly reacting to them.”
“Armis sits at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure,” said Alex Mosher, President and CRO at Armis. “Our AI-powered cyber exposure management technology addresses the entire lifecycle of managing cyber threats – from asset management and security to early warning detection and vulnerability discovery, prioritization and remediation. By going beyond detection to provide real security before an attack, not just after, we help organizations and governments proactively improve their defenses to secure the world’s most critical infrastructure.”
Mosher noted that the Armis platform and solutions are deployed at scale across various verticals and industries, such as manufacturing, transportation, health and medical, federal, national, state and local governments, higher education, financial services, retail, telecommunications and media, and Information Technology.
“The channel is also integral to Armis’ growth,” Mosher added. “Our partner program includes resellers, distributors, MSPs, global systems integrators and more.”
Fortinet, whose strength is rooted an securing networks through the convergence of networking and security, is a long-time Armis partner.
“We’ve been working with Fortinet for the past several years,” Mosher stated. “Our partnership has always been about providing comprehensive visibility, security and enforcement across the modern attack surface. Previous integrations with Fortinet products include FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR.”
Mosher also emphasized the complementary nature of the two companies’ skillsets.
“Armis provides deep context into what assets are connected to the network and why they are at risk,” he said. “Fortinet ties that intelligence directly into network and endpoint security controls. Specifically, the joint solution leverages Armis’ AI-powered Asset Intelligence Engine, which monitors billions of assets around the world in real time; this feeds risk and behavioral data into Fortinet’s AI-driven analytics and threat intelligence. Together, we are focused on helping organizations by eliminating fragmented security.”
Mosher provided further detail on what the new Fortinet partnership is all about.
“The expanded partnership consolidates intelligence, automation and enforcement into a unified security ecosystem,” he said. “For customers, this means a unified cyber defense to eliminate blind spots, automate enforcement and tackle complexity. Additionally, with more than eight integrations, we now cover all three of Fortinet’s core product lines. This expanded partnership simplifies security programs and provides customers the confidence that comes from a truly integrated defense. We’re enabling security teams to move from reactive to proactive security management by automating response workflows and policy application at scale.”
Together, Armis and Fortinet provide asset visibility, management, and enforcement capabilities that help security teams make architectural improvements, automate security programs, and protect the modern, expanded attack surface – empowering organizations with a more proactive security posture. The aim of this partnership is to simultaneously address these issues by implementing integrations leveraging Armis’ Asset Intelligence Engine, which tracks over 6.5 billion device assets, with recommendation and the application of policies and features from products like FortiGate, FortiNAC, FortiManager, and enrich Fortinet SecOps products including FortiSOAR, FortiSIEM, FortiEDR, and FortiAnalyzer. This collaboration is focused on a shared mission – to streamline security programs and empower organizations to face today’s complex cyber threats with confidence. By combining their strengths, Armis and Fortinet are taking a unified approach to provide organizations with a complete, intelligent, and proactive defense to secure their entire digital environment.
“This expanded partnership has come about over the past 18 months, driven by strong market and customer demand,” Mosher stated. “Our deep engineering relationship and the complementary nature of our work were recognized by our joint customers and executive teams. Together, it became clear we could accelerate value delivery across our prospect and customer base. The complementary integrations bring this value to life more quickly and drive new contextual insights into risk exposure and where protection and monitoring can be best applied to address risks.”
Armis provides deep context into what assets are connected to the network and why they are at risk, strengthening Fortinet’s ability to recommend how to secure at-risk assets and enforce policies. Together, Armis and Fortinet provide asset visibility, management, and enforcement capabilities that help security teams make architectural improvements, automate security programs, and protect the modern, expanded attack surface – empowering organizations with a more proactive security posture.
“Fortinet has a customer-first culture built on openness, teamwork, and innovation, and partnering with a leader like Armis to stop sophisticated attacks illustrates how we’re listening to our customers,” said John Whittle, Chief Operating Officer of Fortinet. “We deliver the industry’s most robust threat intelligence and advanced AI for security, backed by Fortinet’s AI patent portfolio – the largest in cybersecurity. Expanding our partnership with Armis will give customers unified visibility and integrated defense across their growing digital attack surfaces.”
Mosher also explained how the expanded alliance would translate into improved Go-to-Market strategy.
“Many organizations often have multiple solutions to manage their security operations, but these solutions don’t talk to one another,” he said. “CISOs are looking at vendor consolidation and platform plays, which cut complexity and together drive new insights and protection. Armis and Fortinet’s global sales and technical teams will work together to identify joint opportunities, leveraging the “better together” integration value propositions.
“Armis and Fortinet will jointly leverage our partners to deliver and sell the combined propositions,” Mosher added “We already have several mutual global partners who offer services based on our combined solutions. This collaboration is exciting for our partners because it enables them to deliver proactive defense at scale, thereby reducing complexity, driving efficiency and strengthening customer trust. It transforms service delivery from siloed tool management into a unified exposure management and enforcement.”