Best Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Freelancers
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What are Vulnerability Assessment Tools for Freelancers?
Vulnerability assessment tools help organizations identify, analyze, prioritize, and remediate security weaknesses across networks, applications, cloud environments, endpoints, databases, and IT infrastructure. These tools scan systems for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, outdated software, exposed services, and compliance gaps that could be exploited by attackers. The software often includes risk scoring, asset discovery, continuous monitoring, remediation guidance, compliance reporting, and automated scanning capabilities to help security teams manage vulnerabilities efficiently. Many vulnerability assessment solutions integrate with SIEM, SOAR, asset management, ticketing, and security operations platforms to streamline remediation workflows and improve security visibility. By proactively identifying and prioritizing security risks, vulnerability assessment tools help organizations strengthen their cybersecurity posture, reduce attack surfaces, and maintain regulatory compliance. Compare and read user reviews of the best Vulnerability Assessment tools for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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NinjaOne
NinjaOne
NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for 35,000+ customers in 140+ countries. The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency. NinjaOne is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools. The company is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years. -
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NetBrain
NetBrain
NetBrain pioneers Agentic NetOps, delivering autonomous network operations through AI agents that diagnose, decide, and act with full network context. NetBrain serves approximately one third of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 across the most complex enterprise networks in the world, with offices in Boston, London, Munich, Hyderabad, Beijing, and Toronto. -
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Astra Pentest
Astra Security
Astra’s Pentest is a comprehensive penetration testing solution with an intelligent automated vulnerability scanner coupled with in-depth manual pentesting. On top of 10000+ tests including security checks for all CVEs mentioned in the OWASP top 10, and SANS 25, the automated scanner also conducts all tests required to comply with ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2, and GDPR. Astra offers an interactive pentest dashboard that the user can use to visualize vulnerability analyses, assign vulnerabilities to team members, and collaborate with security experts. And if the users don’t want to get back to the dashboard every time they want to use the scanner or assign a vulnerability to a team member, they can simply use the integrations with CI/CD platforms, Slack, and Jira.Starting Price: $199 per month -
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Runecast
Runecast Solutions
Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry. -
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Vendifi
Vendifi
Vendifi is a cutting-edge third-party risk management (TPRM) platform built for regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and government. Designed to simplify vendor compliance, Vendifi automates the entire due diligence process—from creating regulatory-compliant questionnaires to distributing them, chasing third parties for documentation, and validating responses. Alongside automated due diligence, Vendifi provides advanced cybersecurity monitoring, including real-time threat detection, vulnerability assessments, and ransomware alerts. Built on Microsoft SharePoint and Azure, Vendifi integrates seamlessly with your existing ecosystem, ensuring data security and compliance within your Office 365 environment. Whether you're managing 10 vendors or 10,000, Vendifi scales with your needs, offering a centralized solution for third-party risk management, compliance tracking, and vendor lifecycle management.Starting Price: $11499/annual -
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Tenable Nessus
Tenable
Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. From the beginning, we've worked hand-in-hand with the security community. We continuously optimize Nessus based on community feedback to make it the most accurate and comprehensive vulnerability assessment solution in the market. 20 years later and we're still laser focused on community collaboration and product innovation to provide the most accurate and complete vulnerability data - so you don't miss critical issues which could put your organization at risk. Today, Nessus is trusted by more than 30,000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet - and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment. -
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Hakware Archangel
Hakware
Hakware Archangel is an Artificial Intelligence based vulnerability scanner and pentesting tool. Archangel scanner enables organizations to monitor their networks, systems, and applications for security vulnerabilities with advanced Artificial intelligence continuously testing your environment. Why use Archangel? -Identify vulnerabilities before cyber criminals do -Our vulnerability scanning mitigates the risks of a data breach, which will come with a range of costs, including remediation, the loss of customers as a result of reputational damage and fines -Vulnerability scanning is not explicitly required by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or POPI (Protection Of Personal Information Act), but the -Regulation does require organisations that process personal data to ensure that they have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures – which includes identifying vulnerabilities -The international standard for information security, ISO 27001Starting Price: $100 -
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Quixxi
Quixxi
Quixxi is a leading provider of mobile app security solutions that empowers enterprises and security professionals to protect their mobile applications through its patented and proprietary three-pillar platform: SCAN, an automated vulnerability assessment tool (SAST/DAST/WebAPI) that integrates into the development pipeline to identify and fix vulnerabilities with full remediation guidance; SHIELD, a one-click application shielding tool (RASP) that provides baseline security controls to protect intellectual property and defend against malicious third-party attacks; and SUPERVISE, a runtime monitoring solution that enables remote disabling, messaging, security logs, and customer analytics for enhanced app management and visibility. Serving: Mobile App Developers, Security Teams, and Organizations in Banking, Fintech, Digital Wallets, Healthcare, Government, and ITStarting Price: $29 for One-Off plan -
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Saner CVEM
SecPod Technologies
SecPod Saner CVEM is a continuous vulnerability and exposure management platform designed to help organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate risks before attackers can exploit them. The platform unifies asset discovery, vulnerability detection, compliance management, endpoint management, posture anomaly detection, patch management, exposure visibility, and risk prioritization in one workflow. Saner CVEM uses AI-powered asset visibility, machine-learning anomaly detection, and intelligent prioritization to identify both known vulnerabilities and exposure gaps that traditional scanners may miss. It evaluates risk using factors such as EPSS, CISA KEV status, SSVC, asset criticality, business context, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and CWE mapping. The platform also supports integrated patch deployment, posture improvement, compliance automation, and continuous scanning across Windows, Linux, macOS, AIX, servers, endpoints, and third-party applications.Starting Price: $50/year/device -
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Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleus is redefining the vulnerability management software category as the single source of record for all assets, vulnerabilities, and associated data. We unlock the value you’re not getting from existing tools and place you squarely on the path to program maturity by unifying the people, processes, and technology involved in vulnerability management. With Nucleus, you receive unmatched visibility into your program and a suite of tools with functionality that simply can’t be replicated in any other way. Nucleus is the single shift-left tool that unifies development and security operations. It unlocks the value you’re not getting out of your existing tools and puts you on the path to unifying the people, processes, and technology involved in addressing vulnerabilities and code weaknesses. With Nucleus, you’ll get unmatched pipeline integration, tracking, triage, automation and reporting capabilities and a suite of tools with functionality.Starting Price: $10 per user per year -
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Skybox Security
Skybox Security
The Skybox approach to risk-based vulnerability management starts with fresh vulnerability data from your entire network — physical IT, multi–cloud and operational technology (OT). Skybox uses a wide range of sources, including asset and patch management systems and network devices, to assess vulnerabilities without a scan. We also collect, centralize and merge data from multiple scanners to give you the most accurate vulnerability assessments on demand. Centralize and enhance vulnerability management processes from discovery to prioritization and remediation. Harness the power vulnerability and asset data, as well as network topology and security controls. Use network modeling and attack simulation to find exposed vulnerabilities. Augment vulnerability data with intelligence on the current threat landscape. Know your best remediation option, including patching, IPS signatures and network–based changes. -
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Qualys VMDR
Qualys
The industry's most advanced, scalable and extensible solution for vulnerability management. Fully cloud-based, Qualys VMDR provides global visibility into where your IT assets are vulnerable and how to protect them. With VMDR 2.0, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure its true risk, and track risk reduction over time. Discover, assess, prioritize, and patch critical vulnerabilities and reduce cybersecurity risk in real time and across your global hybrid IT, OT, and IoT landscape. Quantify risk across vulnerabilities, assets, and groups of assets to help your organization proactively mitigate risk exposure and track risk reduction over time with Qualys TruRisk™ -
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Digital Defense
Fortra
Providing best-in-class cyber security doesn’t mean blindly chasing the latest trends. It does mean a commitment to core technology and meaningful innovation. See how our vulnerability and threat management solutions provide organizations like yours with the security foundation needed to protect vital assets. Eliminating network vulnerabilities doesn’t have to be complicated, even though that’s what some companies would have you believe. You can build a powerful, effective cybersecurity program that is affordable and easy to use. All you need is a strong security foundation. At Digital Defense, we know that effectively dealing with cyber threats is a fact of life for every business. After more than 20 years of developing patented technologies, we’ve built a reputation for pioneering threat and vulnerability management software that’s accessible, manageable, and solid at its core. -
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NodeZero by Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai® can assess the attack surface of your hybrid cloud, helping you continuously find and fix your internal and external attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero is an unauthenticated, run-once container you deploy yourself. No persistent agents and no provisioned credentials, up and running in minutes. With NodeZero, you own your pen test from start to finish. You configure the scope and attack parameters. NodeZero conducts benign exploitation, gathers proof, and delivers a complete report, so you can focus on real risk and maximize your remediation efforts. Run NodeZero continuously and evaluate your security posture over time. Proactively identify and remediate attack vectors as they appear. NodeZero discovers and fingerprints your internal and external attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults. -
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Tanium
Tanium
Empowering the world’s largest organizations to manage and protect their mission-critical networks. Our data model can collect new, ad-hoc data on the fly in seconds, allowing customers, partners and Tanium to quickly develop capabilities on this extensible platform. Our patented architecture collects and distributes data to millions of endpoints in seconds, with zero infrastructure. Enable decision-making where data is generated: the endpoint itself. Our agent consumes minimal endpoint resources and bandwidth while fitting on the firmware of the smallest chips. Expand your capabilities without expanding Tanium’s footprint. We’ve found that the best way for customers to understand what we do is to show our platform in action. Orion Hindawi, Tanium’s co-founder and CEO, will guide you through a hands-on keyboard tour to show what Tanium does and the power of the platform. Track down every IT asset you own instantaneously. -
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Saint Security Suite
Carson & SAINT
This single, fully integrated solution conducts active, passive and agent-based assessments while its extensive flexibility evaluates risk according to each business. SAINT’s impressive, flexible and scalable scanning capabilities set it apart from many others in this space. SAINT has partnered with AWS, allowing its customers to take advantage of AWS’s efficient scanning. Should subscribers prefer, SAINT also offers a Windows scanning agent. Security teams can schedule scans easily, configure them with considerable occurrence flexibility and fine-tune them with advanced options. As a vulnerability management solution, SAINT Security Suite’s security research and development efforts focus on investigation, triage, prioritization, and coverage of vulnerabilities of the highest levels of severity and importance. Not willing to settle for just blanket coverage and raw data, our analysts focus on developing tools for what matters to our customers.Starting Price: $1500.00/year/user -
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GFI LanGuard
GFI Software
GFI LanGuard enables you to manage and maintain endpoint protection across your network. It provides visibility into all the elements in your network, helps you assess where there may be potential vulnerabilities, and enables you to patch them. The patch management and network auditing solution are easy-to-use and easy to deploy. Automatically discover all the elements in your network, including computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, printers, servers, virtual machines, routers and switches. Group your devices for better management. Distribute management to different teams and see everything from a central management dashboard. Identify non-patch vulnerabilities by using an updated list of 60,000+ known issues as well as items such as open ports and system information about users, shared directories and services. Find gaps in common operating systems. Identify missing patches in web browsers and third-party software.Starting Price: $32 per year -
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Dhound
IDS Global
Your business is linked to critical infrastructure or sensitive data, and you understand the cost of a vulnerability that an attacker can find. You work under security regulations stated by the law to take certain security measures (i.e. SOC2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.) and are required to conduct pentests by a third-party company. Your clients claim partnership only with reliable and secure solutions, and you keep your promises, guaranteeing your system security with the results of penetration testing. Pen test is an imitation of a real hacking attack but performed by security knights who fight for your web security with noble intentions. We conduct Penetration testing (also known as pen test or ethical hacking) so you can breathe out and be confident your system in safe hands. Unlike vulnerability assessment, ethical hacking at Dhound not just seeks vulnerabilities. It would be too easy for us. To stay ahead of adversaries, we apply hackers’ mindset and techniques but no worry!Starting Price: $30 per month -
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SecurityMetrics Perimeter Scan
SecurityMetrics
Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment Scan For Network Security. Vulnerability scans and network scans find top cybersecurity risks such as misconfigured firewalls, malware hazards, remote access vulnerabilities, and can be used for cyber security or compliance mandates like PCI Compliance (PCI DSS) and HIPAA. Add and remove your own targets through your Perimeter Scan Portal. You can mass upload scan targets and groups. You can group and label scan targets to make it easier to manage by location, network type, or unique circumstances at your organization. Run port scans on your most sensitive targets more frequently, test in scope PCI targets quarterly, or test designated IPs after changes to your network with simplicity. Vulnerability scanning reports list the target, vulnerability type, service (e.g., https, MySQL, etc.), and the severity of each vulnerability (low, medium, high).Starting Price: $99.00/one-time -
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Autobahn Security
Autobahn Security GmbH
Start your cyber fitness and cyber health journey today. Autobahn Security combines six key cyber risk management requirements into a comprehensive vulnerability management program. Autobahn Security is trusted worldwide by companies of all sizes, industries, and locations. Autobahn Security is a vulnerability remediation solution that was developed by Security Research Labs' internationally recognized ethical hackers and security specialists. Autobahn Security is a more efficient way to assess vulnerabilities than traditional methods. It detects forgotten assets, automates the process, and protects your business from potential threats. Autobahn Security closes these gaps by fully automated asset discovery, vulnerability scanning, and comprehensive benchmarking based upon deep scans of more than four thousand companies.Starting Price: $99 one-time payment -
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Vulkyrie
Vulkyrie
More than 100,000 vulnerabilities were reported for commonly used software over the last five years. In 2019 alone, more than 22,000 were reported and 1 out of 3 was given a High or Critical severity rating. Our free vulnerability scanning can help find your security issues before the bad guys do. Our Free plan comes with no limits on the number of IP addresses and URLs, and no limits on the number of vulnerability scans you can run. Unlike free trials, free versions or community editions of other vulnerability assessment tools, you no longer have to choose between your web servers, Windows servers, network devices or virtual machines. Take the first step towards better vulnerability management without the complexity and steep learning curve. Our web-based solution provides you with an easy-to-use interface to manage your security testing. Simply add your IP address or URL to start a scan and use our portal to get the issues and recommended security measures.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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PatrOwl
PatrOwl.io
PatrowlHears supports your vulnerability watch process for your internal IT assets (OS, middleware, application, Web CMS, Java/.Net/Node library, network devices, IoT). Vulnerabilities and related exploitation notes at put at your disposal. Scan continuously websites, public IP, domains and subdomains for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations. Perform the reconnaissance steps, including the asset discovery and the full-stack vulnerability assessment and the remediation checks. Automation of static code analysis, external resources assessment and web application vulnerability scans. Access a comprehensive and continuously updated vulnerability database scored and enriched with exploit and threat news information. Metadata are collected and qualified by security experts from public OSINT and private feeds.Starting Price: €49 per month -
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RiskProfiler
RiskProfiler
RiskProfiler offers a comprehensive suite of products for Continuous Threat Exposure Management, addressing an organization's external attack surface. These include the Cyber RiskProfiler for cyber risk ratings, Recon RiskProfiler for External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capabilities, Cloud RiskProfiler for Cloud Attack Surface Management (CASM) that identifies actually exposed cloud resources and prioritizes risks, and Brand RiskProfiler for brand protection. Recon RiskProfiler is an advanced EASM and CASM solution with robust integrations across major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It delivers comprehensive visibility into external cloud resources, enabling efficient identification, assessment, and management of vulnerabilities and risks. Vendor RiskProfiler is a comprehensive Cyber Risk and Vendor Risk Management solution that delivers company cyber risk ratings while enabling efficient sending, receiving, and validation of third-party vendor security.Starting Price: $4999 -
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Akto
Akto
Akto is an open source API security in CI/CD platform. Key features of Akto include: 1. API Discovery 2. API Security Testing 3. Sensitive Data Exposure 4. API Security Posture Management 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. API Security in DevSecOps Akto helps developers and security teams secure APIs in their CI/CD by continuously discovering and testing APIs for vulnerabilities. Akto's pricing is transparent on website. Free tier is available. You can deploy both self-hosted and in cloud. It takes only few mins to deploy and see results. Akto can integrate with multiple traffic sources - Burpsuite, AWS, postman, GCP, gateways, etc. -
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vRx
Vicarius
Consolidate your software vulnerability assessment with one single vRx agent. Let vRx do the work so you can focus on and remediate the threats that matter most. vRx's prioritization engine using CVSS framework bases prioritization, plus AI of the specific security posture of your organization, and maps your digital environment to help you prioritize critical vulnerabilities for mitigation. vRx maps the potential consequences of a successful exploit within your unique digital infrastructure. CVSS metrics and context-based AI mapping provide the data needed to prioritize and mitigate critical vulnerabilities. For each detected app, OS, or asset vulnerability, vRx provides recommended actions that help you eliminate potential risks and stay resilient.Starting Price: $5 per asset per month -
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Tenable One Vulnerability Management is a risk-based vulnerability management solution that helps organizations discover, prioritize, and remediate critical exposures across modern attack surfaces. The platform unifies vulnerability insights with broader security data inside the Tenable One exposure management platform. It helps teams see assets, contextualize vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, optimize response, automate remediation, and use Hexa AI for exposure management support. Tenable One Vulnerability Management is designed to help security teams focus on the weaknesses that create the greatest business risk instead of treating every vulnerability the same. The platform supports related needs such as patch management, PCI compliance, web app scanning, attack surface management, cloud vulnerability management, and on-premises vulnerability management through Tenable Security Center.Starting Price: $4,399.05 per year
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Vulseek by Securetia
Securetia
Vulseek is a modern Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) solution that simplifies how organizations identify, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities across their infrastructure. Designed with usability and effectiveness in mind, Vulseek automates the entire vulnerability lifecycle, from detection to resolution, empowering teams to stay secure without added complexity. At its core, Vulseek combines automated asset discovery and scanning with intelligent risk prioritization, allowing security teams to focus on what truly matters. Its customizable dashboards, real-time alerts, and integrations with popular ticketing systems and SIEMs help ensure vulnerabilities are addressed swiftly and systematically. Built by cybersecurity experts, Vulseek is trusted by companies across industries to maintain continuous visibility into their attack surface Reduce mean time to remediation (MTTR) Meet compliance requirements with easeStarting Price: $40/month -
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ZeroLeaks
ZeroLeaks
ZeroLeaks is an AI prompt security platform that helps organizations identify and fix exposed system prompts, internal tools, and logic vulnerabilities that could allow prompt injection, prompt extraction, or other forms of leakage that expose internal instructions or intellectual property to unauthorized actors. It provides an interactive dashboard where users can scan system prompts manually or automate scanning via CI/CD integration to catch leaks and injection vectors before code is deployed, and it uses an AI-powered red-team-style analysis engine to assess prompt surfaces for logic flaws, extraction risks, and potential misuse with evidence, scoring, and remediation recommendations. ZeroLeaks targets enterprise-grade security for large-language-model-based products by offering vulnerability assessments that highlight prompt exposure depth, prioritized risks, proof, and access paths for issues found, and suggested fixes such as prompt restructuring, tool gating, etc.Starting Price: $499 per month -
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Centraleyezer
Sandline
Integrates and correlates vulnerability scanners data and multiple exploit feeds combined with business and IT factors and to prioritize cyber security risks. Helps CISO, Red Teams and Vulnerability Assessment Teams reduce time-to-fix, prioritize and report risks. Used by Governments, Military, Banking, Finance, and E-Commerce companiesStarting Price: $599 per month -
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Armis Centrix
Armis
Armis Centrix™ is a comprehensive cyber exposure management platform that provides continuous, real-time visibility and protection across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. Powered by the Armis AI-driven Asset Intelligence Engine, it identifies every connected device, assesses cyber risk, and monitors vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire digital attack surface. The platform automates risk scoring, streamlines compliance reporting, and supports rapid incident response through deep asset intelligence. With capabilities that span asset management, OT/IoT security, medical device protection, and early warning threat detection, Armis Centrix™ enhances operational resilience for modern enterprises. VIPR Pro adds advanced prioritization and remediation to connect findings directly to actionable fixes. Designed as a cloud-native, frictionless platform, Armis Centrix™ empowers organizations to reduce exposure, strengthen security posture, and maintain continuity at scale.
