Axonius Asset Cloud

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Axonius is the visibility it gives across the environment. It pulls data from many different tools and shows everything in one place, which makes life much easier. The queries are powerful and help in finding exactly what you are looking for without much effort. It also helps a lot in identifying unknown or unmanaged assets, which is something we were missing earlier. Overall it saves time and improves our understanding of the environment.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing I don’t like about Axonius is that it can feel complex in the beginning. There is a learning curve to understand the queries and how everything is connected. Sometimes the data depends a lot on the integrations, so if a source is not updated properly it can cause confusion. Also the UI can feel a bit heavy when working with large datasets, and the pricing is not cheap.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axonius is mainly solving the problem of asset visibility for us. Earlier we had data spread across multiple tools and it was hard to know what devices or users actually exist in the environment. With Axonius, we get a single source of truth which helps in identifying unmanaged, outdated, or risky assets. This helps us improve security, reduce blind spots, and also makes audits and reporting much easier. Overall it saves time and helps us take better decisions.

My main use case for Axonius  is config management and asset inventory. I use Axonius  to maintain the asset inventory up to date and also to identify the owners quickly; these are the primary requirements, and it will help us build governance across all the assets that we have provisioned in different AWS  accounts and the on-premises environment.

Our team especially leverages Axonius for asset tracking and ownership. In terms of security incidents, it was really challenging for us to identify who created the asset, who the owner is, and how we can track what changes happened over the period; those are the big challenges in the past. Now with this solution in place, we can quickly track what the asset is, who is the owner, what changes have happened, and what caused a real incident or changes that really impacted the system, which can be easily tracked and identifiable, enabling us to reach out to the owner to fix things quickly.

The best features Axonius offers are inventory and tracking of the changes. The tracking of changes feature works for my team through recording all config changes as they happen over the period, showing who made the change and when, giving us visibility especially when someone made a change with associated reference information such as IT or Jira  tickets, providing insights on the reasons behind the change.

The main appreciation I have with this tool is the governance, as we had a big gap for the NIST and other compliance programs where we didn't have a good asset inventory or maintain the config database. With this solution in place, we are now 100% compliant along with security functions or operations area management.

Axonius has positively impacted my organization, with one great improvement being the compliance program, which has centralized everything in one place. Additionally, with this solution in place, we can track quickly, helping us accelerate the incident response process.

The acceleration of our incident response is notable because in the past, identifying assets and their ownership was really difficult. Now with this solution, we could quickly log into the system, identify the asset, and see the owner, allowing us to reach out to the right people and identify the group the asset belongs to. Having tags assigned helps indicate the application or environment it is currently running on, enabling us to quickly revert changes or mitigate issues that arise due to recent changes, which significantly improves our incident response process, especially containment and remediation.

I would add that currently, the tool supports some integrations, but we would expect it to support broader integration with other security tools, observability, or any other cloud integrations.

One area Axonius can be improved is its integration process, as it is not straightforward; there is a lot involved in cloning the instance and other hard changes that I expect to be fully automated, suggesting an agentless method instead of utilizing agents, which feels somewhat legacy but could be improved.

The user interface needs improvement because it is a bit laggy sometimes, making it not straightforward when we want to identify things quickly, leading us to go in different directions which could be better tied together in one place.

I have been using Axonius for the last couple of years.

Axonius is stable so far.

The scalability of Axonius is good; sometimes we see some lag, but apart from that, it is performing okay. I feel we can improve a bit in that area, but overall we are doing okay.

The customer support has been good.

Previously, I was using a custom in-house solution that was not performing well, as well as an AWS  solution that did not provide full insights and was more manual.

I purchased Axonius through the AWS Marketplace .

I have seen a return on investment, with time saved being the measurable metric I would highlight.

I think I am good so far with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing; I do not see any disturbances there, but it is working well.

Before choosing Axonius, I did not evaluate too many options, but I looked at Precise as one of them.

My advice to others looking into using Axonius is to focus on centralized asset inventory, governance, and ownership. I do not have any business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. I think Axonius is doing well overall. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

Axonius works different compare to other asset management solution. The way it works is like an Asset Management solution with intelligence. You can ingest all available information and play with it.

What do you dislike about the product?

Axonius is much dependent to the number of management tools it integrate with (in a form of Adapters). As much as possible you should have different tools such as AD, EPP/EDR, NAC, NGFW, NMS, VA, etc.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axonius solves the problem in overall asset visibility. It also helps you to identify the unique number of assets in your environment compare to other asset management platform, Axonius correlate, normalize, validate, and deduplicate data. By the help of correlation, you can easily identify rogue devices, devices with no agents, and especially in auditting and compliance check.