SentinelOne and Armis Integration Elevates Asset Security Across IoT, OT, and Cloud

SentinelOne and Armis Integration Enhances IoT, OT, and Cloud Security

In today’s interconnected landscape, SentinelOne and Armis have joined forces to provide a transformative integration for unified asset visibility and advanced threat protection. This collaboration addresses a crucial need for modern security teams: comprehensive asset visibility across IoT, OT, cloud, and traditional endpoint devices. As networks grow more complex, keeping track of and securing assets becomes challenging, especially in sectors like healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure where IoT and OT devices have created a new layer of exposure to threats like ransomware and malware.

Why Unified Visibility Matters

With network complexity on the rise, many organizations struggle to secure and monitor the various endpoints that comprise their digital ecosystems. The expanded threat landscape—including cloud services, mobile, IoT, and OT devices—brings unique security demands that traditional endpoint management tools cannot address alone. Unified visibility across all devices, both managed and unmanaged, is critical to reducing the attack surface and preventing potential breaches. This level of visibility is especially crucial for industries where endpoint security directly impacts safety and operational continuity.

With SentinelOne’s Singularity XDR solution and Armis’ asset intelligence, organizations can now bridge this gap, enabling security and operational teams to detect threats faster, reduce attack incidents, and simplify incident response efforts.

Overcoming IoT and OT Security Challenges

IoT and OT devices present new security challenges, particularly because they’re often unmanaged and lack traditional endpoint protections. In healthcare, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure, devices such as connected medical equipment or industrial control systems (ICS) are high-risk targets due to the value of the data they carry and their pivotal roles in critical operations.

“Devices left unattended are very attractive targets for threat actors,” explained Ed Barry, VP of strategic alliances at Armis. “Armis delivers intelligent insights on both managed and unmanaged devices, helping customers mitigate risks proactively and prevent attacks.” For healthcare organizations in particular, the stakes are higher than ever. A ransomware attack on a healthcare facility can jeopardize patient safety, making security critical.

SentinelOne and Armis: Advanced Features for Modern Security Needs

The SentinelOne-Armis integration delivers three robust solutions designed to enhance security outcomes:

1. SentinelOne Singularity XDR for Armis App – The integration enriches threat detection with October context, providing seamless visibility across IoT, OT, and endpoint devices. This results in accelerated threat sequencing and faster investigations.
2. Broad Visibility Across Managed and Unmanaged Devices – This integration extends equal visibility to all types of devices, from endpoints to IoT and OT. By merging device health, asset metadata, and application inventory into comprehensive risk models, organizations can prioritize vulnerabilities and direct remediation efforts where they’re needed most.
3. Integrated Response and Risk Reduction – With real-time monitoring and automated insights, security teams can detect and address threats autonomously. SentinelOne’s autonomous prevention strategies, paired with Armis’ expansive visibility, take attack assessment and mitigation to the next level.

This combination of intelligence from Armis with the autonomous response capabilities of SentinelOne’s XDR solution enables security teams to reduce response times and close security gaps.

How SentinelOne and Armis Integration Enhances Security Awareness and Training

A holistic approach to security awareness and training can amplify the impact of this integrated security platform. By providing real-time data on both managed and unmanaged assets, SentinelOne and Armis improve threat detection and incident response while supporting security awareness training that prepares employees to identify and respond to potential threats. Organizations can use insights gathered from these assets to train employees on recognizing phishing attempts, social engineering tactics, and suspicious device behavior. Consider using tools like Keepnet Labs’ Security Awareness Training to supplement these efforts, ensuring employees are vigilant and capable of handling cyber threats.

For instance, phishing attacks remain one of the top threats to organizational security. Integrating phishing simulations and incident response training with the SentinelOne-Armis system can further enhance employee readiness. Tools like Keepnet’s Phishing Simulator empower security teams to identify risky employee behaviors and conduct ongoing training tailored to real-world scenarios.

Key Benefits for Security Teams

Unified Threat Intelligence: With the SentinelOne-Armis integration, organizations achieve end-to-end visibility across IoT, OT, cloud, and mobile endpoints. This unified view enables security operations centers (SOCs) to detect threats more accurately and respond to incidents faster.

Enhanced Incident Response: The integration improves incident response by providing enriched context about every asset, from its security posture to its role in the organization’s network. Real-time insights and automated threat response can prevent lateral movement within the network, limiting the scope of potential damage.

Simplified Vulnerability Management: By combining Armis’ device insights with SentinelOne’s XDR capabilities, security teams can track vulnerabilities more effectively and prioritize fixes based on risk assessments. This capability is critical in industries with complex IoT and OT environments.

Strengthen Your Organization's Security Posture

Unified asset visibility across all device types is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity in today’s threat landscape. The SentinelOne-Armis integration provides an advanced solution that empowers security and operational teams to maintain a robust security posture and stay ahead of emerging threats. Leveraging tools such as Human Risk Management from Keepnet Labs can further help organizations reduce risks associated with human error, which continues to be a leading cause of security incidents.

For organizations looking to enhance their security awareness training and improve employee response to attacks, the SentinelOne-Armis collaboration offers powerful resources. Solutions like the Keepnet Incident Responder provide SOC teams with capabilities to respond efficiently to security incidents, reducing both the impact and the frequency of attacks.

Editor's Note: This blog was updated on November 14, 2024.