Armis and Cato: Redefining Device Security Through Intelligence and Enforcement
Overview
In today’s hyper-connected world, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: securing the explosive growth of connected devices across their networks. From laptops and smartphones to IoT and OT systems, the device ecosystem is expanding at a pace that traditional tracking and protection methods cannot keep up with.
Most IT and security teams struggle with fragmented, siloed tools that produce incomplete and outdated device inventories, riddled with blind spots and inconsistencies. This unreliable data makes security policies ineffective and risky, exposing organizations to threats. The problem is compounded by traditional network controls that can identify IP addresses but lack the precision to distinguish between critical assets such as MRI scanners, security cameras, and rogue devices, thereby undermining segmentation and limiting the ability to contain attacks.
That’s why we’re excited to announce a strategic technology partnership between Armis and Cato Networks, a collaboration built to deliver clarity, confidence, and stronger security in enterprise device management.
Cato Networks and Armis: A Powerful Solution
Cato Networks and Armis have partnered to deliver a unified solution that blends best-in-class device intelligence with a cloud-native network and security enforcement platform.
Armis is the market leader in asset intelligence and visibility, giving organizations deep, continuous insight into every device – managed or unmanaged – across IT, IoT, and OT domains. The Armis platform identifies each device’s type, behavior, vulnerabilities, and risk posture in real time, without the need for agents.
Cato Networks, in turn, pioneered the world’s first SASE platform, converging networking and security into a single, cloud-native service. A core strength of Cato is its device inventory and segmentation, enabling customers to enforce fine-grained security policies consistently across their global footprint.
By integrating these complementary strengths, organizations can now feed Armis’ contextual intelligence directly into the Cato SASE Cloud. This creates a single, unified, enriched device inventory that combines Armis’ depth of classification with Cato’s breadth of enforcement.
Business and Technical Outcomes of the Integration
A Unified, Trusted Device Inventory
Before this integration, security teams were often left reconciling data across multiple tools and still uncertain about the trustworthiness of the results. Now, with Armis intelligence flowing into Cato’s device inventory, customers gain:
- Higher Accuracy: Devices are classified with unmatched precision, from general IT assets to specialized IoT and OT equipment.
- Greater Confidence: A unified view ensures the inventory can serve as the authoritative source for device data.
- Operational Efficiency: Teams manage a single, enriched inventory instead of rather than juggling fragmented, inconsistent datasets.
The outcome is a trusted foundation for decision-making. With accurate inventories, organizations can base their security policies on reality rather than guesswork.
Smarter, More Granular Segmentation
Visibility is only half the equation. Comprehensive risk reduction comes from controlling how devices communicate. With Armis’ continuous device intelligence feeding into Cato’s policy engine, organizations can define precise segmentation policies that account for device type, behavior, and risk.
For example:
- In healthcare, IoT medical devices can be automatically segmented from corporate IT systems, reducing the risk of lateral movement from compromised laptops to life-critical equipment.
- In manufacturing, OT controllers and sensors can be isolated from internet-facing applications, limiting the blast radius of an attack.
This capability transforms segmentation from a blunt instrument into a surgical tool, dramatically improving resilience and reducing the potential impact of a breach.
Better Risk Management and Compliance Readiness
From a business perspective, this integration helps organizations move closer to compliance with frameworks such as NIST CSF v2.0 and industry-specific mandates in healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. Accurate inventories, risk-aware policies, and clear audit trails all contribute to demonstrating due diligence and governance.
By delivering Armis’ in-depth visibility and Cato’s consistent policy, the partnership helps organizations operationalize risk management strategies and demonstrate compliance readiness, while strengthening their security posture.
Looking Ahead: A Growing Partnership
The current integration represents the first phase of collaboration between Cato and Armis. Over time, we expect deeper interoperability that expands the value delivered to customers, blending even richer device intelligence with the agility and scalability of Cato’s cloud-native SASE platform.
The shared vision is simple yet powerful: it provides organizations with visibility and control to secure every device, anywhere in the world, without adding complexity.
Conclusion
The integration of Cato IoT/OT Security with Armis’ asset intelligence delivers a powerful advance in protecting connected environments by unifying rich device intelligence with policy-driven network security. This combination gives enterprises both deep visibility and actionable control, enabling segmentation, monitoring, and protection across IT, IoT, and OT domains. The outcome is clearer inventories, stronger policies, and greater resilience against modern threats, offering organizations a practical path to overcome fragmented visibility and achieve stronger security and compliance in the digital era.
For more details, please read our IoT/OT Security website.
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