Armis & Fortinet expand partnership to boost security integration
Armis and Fortinet have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to enhance security capabilities for global organisations.
The extended collaboration aims to deliver greater asset visibility, management and enforcement for security teams, enabling proactive measures to secure a broader and more complex digital attack surface.
Integration and automation
As part of the partnership, Armis and Fortinet will integrate Armis Centrix with the Fortinet Security Fabric through more than eight joint solutions. This integration seeks to remove blind spots in network security, automate enforcement processes, and reinforce cyber resilience across a range of business sectors worldwide.
Armis's system offers detailed context about network-connected assets, helping Fortinet to recommend and enforce security policies more effectively. The two companies intend that their combined solutions will assist security teams in making architectural improvements, automating security programmes, and protecting against modern cyber threats.
"Customers are tired of managing fragmented security tools that don't talk to each other; they want best-in-class solutions that work together to solve complex, real-world problems head-on," said Nadir Izrael, Co-Founder and CTO of Armis. "Our partnership with Fortinet is about fundamentally simplifying security programs and providing security teams the confidence that comes from a truly integrated defence. It's a game-changer for organisations to effectively preempt threats instead of constantly reacting to them."
With the growing size and complexity of digital environments, security teams often have to address asset identification and policy enforcement in separate steps. The Armis and Fortinet partnership is designed to address these concerns in parallel, using the Armis Asset Intelligence Engine, which tracks over 6.5 billion device assets.
This capability will be leveraged alongside products such as FortiGate, FortiNAC, and FortiManager, and will enhance Fortinet's Security Operations (SecOps) offerings, including FortiSOAR, FortiSIEM, FortiEDR, and FortiAnalyser.
Unified defence
The joint approach aims to provide a cohesive security ecosystem with real-time context and automated policy enforcement. According to the companies, these capabilities can help organisations to rapidly detect and contain threats as well as eliminate security blind spots.
"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 defence across their growing digital attack surfaces."
The integration of Armis Centrix and FortiOS, the foundation of Fortinet's Security Fabric, is intended to provide unified visibility and real-time enrichment. This enables automated enforcement of intelligent policies at enterprise scale, supporting organisations in the streamlining and enhancement of their cyber security programmes.
Both companies have cited a shared mission of assisting customers to confidently address today's increasing cyber threat complexity. By combining resources, Armis and Fortinet aim to equip businesses with what they describe as a complete, intelligent, and proactive defence strategy for digital assets.
With the proliferation of connected devices and applications in enterprise IT environments, the need for coordinated and automated security systems has grown. This partnership reflects efforts by both companies to address this need through deep integration and cooperation.
