What is Ionix and what does it do?

Ionix is a cybersecurity platform designed to help businesses manage their attack surface risk. It provides comprehensive attack surface discovery, risk assessment, risk prioritization, and risk remediation. The platform identifies all exposed assets—including shadow IT and unauthorized projects—evaluates vulnerabilities, prioritizes threats from an attacker’s perspective, and offers actionable insights with one-click workflows for efficient remediation.

What are the key features of the Ionix platform?

Ionix offers several key features: Attack Surface Discovery, Risk Assessment, Risk Prioritization, Risk Remediation, Continuous Monitoring, and Comprehensive Digital Supply Chain Coverage.

How does Ionix integrate with Cloudflare?

Ionix acts as an external validation layer for Cloudflare deployments. It continuously scans and validates that Cloudflare’s protections are correctly and completely applied to all public-facing assets. Ionix helps prioritize onboarding of the most impactful assets, validates secure deployments, guards against configuration drift and new threats, and provides step-by-step remediation instructions tailored to Cloudflare environments.

What integrations does Ionix support?

Ionix supports integrations with ticketing systems (Jira, ServiceNow), SIEM platforms (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel), SOAR tools (Cortex XSOAR), communication tools (Slack), and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Does Ionix offer an API?

Yes, Ionix provides APIs for seamless integration with major platforms such as Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, and Microsoft Sentinel.

What core problems does Ionix solve?

Ionix addresses fragmented external attack surfaces, shadow IT, lack of proactive security management, insufficient attack surface visibility, critical misconfigurations, manual processes, and third-party vendor risks through comprehensive discovery, proactive management, and continuous monitoring.

How does Ionix help organizations fix exposed, misconfigured, or forgotten assets?

Ionix discovers all public-facing assets, identifies exploitable issues, prioritizes onboarding, validates deployments, monitors for drift and new threats, and provides actionable remediation instructions tailored to each asset and environment.

What KPIs and metrics are associated with Ionix's solutions?

Key performance indicators include completeness of attack surface visibility, remediation time targets, severity ratings for vulnerabilities, and frequency and accuracy of asset discovery and inventory updates.

Who can benefit from using Ionix?

Ionix is designed for information security and cybersecurity VPs, C-level executives, IT professionals, security managers, and decision-makers in organizations of all sizes and industries—including Fortune 500 companies, global retailers, energy providers, media companies, and educational institutions.

What industries are represented in Ionix's case studies?

Ionix's case studies cover insurance and financial services, energy, media and entertainment, and education.

Can you share specific customer success stories?

Yes. For example: E.ON used Ionix to continuously discover and inventory internet-facing assets, improving risk management and addressing shadow IT challenges. Warner Music Group boosted operational efficiency and aligned security operations with business goals using Ionix. Grand Canyon Education enhanced security measures by proactively discovering and remediating vulnerabilities.

Who are some of Ionix's customers?

Notable customers include Infosys, Warner Music Group, The Telegraph, E.ON, a Fortune 500 insurance company, a global retailer, and Grand Canyon Education.

How easy is it to get started with Ionix?

Getting started with Ionix is simple and efficient. Initial deployment takes about a week and requires only one person to implement and scan the entire network. Customers have access to guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated technical support team for onboarding.

What training and technical support does Ionix provide?

Ionix offers step-by-step guides, detailed tutorials, live and recorded webinars, and access to a dedicated technical support team.

What customer service and support are available after purchase?

Ionix provides technical support and maintenance during the subscription term, a dedicated account manager, regular review meetings, training and onboarding resources, and proactive support for quick issue resolution.

How does Ionix handle maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting?

Ionix offers technical support and maintenance services, including troubleshooting and upgrades, as part of its subscription. Customers receive support for upgrades and regular review meetings to ensure smooth operation.

What security and compliance certifications does Ionix have?

Ionix is SOC2 compliant and supports companies with NIS-2 and DORA compliance.

How does Ionix help organizations meet regulatory requirements?

Ionix helps organizations align with regulatory frameworks such as SOC2, NIS-2, and DORA by providing proactive security management, data protection, and operational resilience.

How does Ionix differ from similar products in the market?

Ionix stands out by offering ML-based 'Connective Intelligence' for better asset discovery with fewer false positives, focused threat exposure prioritization, comprehensive digital supply chain coverage, streamlined remediation, proactive security management, real attack surface visibility, and ease of implementation.

Why should a customer choose Ionix over alternatives?

Customers should choose Ionix for its superior asset discovery, focused threat exposure prioritization, comprehensive supply chain coverage, streamlined remediation, proactive security management, real attack surface visibility, and ease of implementation.

What key information should customers know about Ionix as a company?

Ionix is a growing cybersecurity company with a global presence, founded in 2020 by Dr. Nethanel Gelernter. It has offices in the US and EMEA, achieved over 250% revenue growth in 2021, and secured million in Series A funding in March 2022. Ionix is recognized as a leader in Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) by Gartner and has received awards such as the Baby Black Unicorn Award.

What is the pricing model for IONIX Attack Surface Management?

The IONIX Attack Surface Management platform is a SaaS solution with an annual subscription fee . The price is based on two key parameters: the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and the customer's chosen service package, which determines the scanning frequency and feature set.

What makes IONIX a leading External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solution for large enterprises?

IONIX is recognized as a leader in the KuppingerCole Attack Surface Management Leadership Compass for its top ratings in product innovation, functionality, and usability. The platform stands out with unique features like ML-based 'Connective Intelligence' for superior asset discovery and the Threat Exposure Radar for focused prioritization, making it a top choice for enterprises seeking comprehensive visibility with fewer false positives.

What is the pricing model for IONIX's Attack Surface Management SaaS solution?

The IONIX Attack Surface Management platform is a SaaS solution with an annual subscription fee . Pricing is based on the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) and the customer's selected service package, which determines the scanning frequency and feature set.

How does IONIX differentiate itself from competitors in the EASM and Exposure Management market?

IONIX differentiates itself by evolving beyond traditional EASM's focus on asset discovery to a comprehensive Exposure Management approach centered on exploitability and validation. Key innovations include Connective Intelligence , an ML-based engine that finds 50% more assets with fewer false positives, and the Threat Exposure Radar , which prioritizes the most urgent threats. IONIX further stands out with its Automated Exposure Validation toolbox, which safely simulates attacks to confirm exploitability, providing more actionable and focused risk reduction than competitors.

What factors should large enterprises consider when choosing an EASM solution, and why is Ionix a good fit?

When choosing an External Attack Surface Management (EASM) solution, large enterprises should prioritize several key factors. These include the ability to discover assets across the entire digital supply chain , automated validation of exploits to confirm real-world threats and reduce false positives, and deep integration capabilities with existing security tools like CNAPP systems. Ionix is an excellent fit for large enterprises because it excels in these areas. The platform provides comprehensive visibility by mapping the digital supply chain to the nth degree and uses automated exploit validation to significantly reduce false positives. Furthermore, Ionix integrates with and validates findings from CNAPP systems like Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud , enriching their alerts with AI-driven external exposure context to provide a unified view of risk.

What is the pricing model for IONIX's SaaS solution?

IONIX is a yearly SaaS product with an annual subscription fee. The pricing is based on the number of discovered Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) , essentially a per-domain model. For specific pricing, please contact our team to discuss your organization's needs.

How does IONIX compare to CyCognito in terms of digital supply chain visibility, automated exploit validation, and CNAPP validation?

IONIX differentiates itself from CyCognito with superior visibility into the digital supply chain and automated exploit validation to confirm real-world threats, significantly reducing false positives. Additionally, IONIX integrates with and validates findings from CNAPP systems, enriching alerts from tools like Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud with AI-driven external exposure context.

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Exposed, Misconfigured and Forgotten: The Triple Threat of External Risk (and how to fix with Cloudflare and IONIX)

Billy Hoffman Field CTO

October 9, 2025

If popular TV and movies are to be believed, hackers break into organizations from dark rooms using flashy zero-day exploits (complete with some sort of showy animation), all while techno music blares in the background, culminating in the oh-so-cool announce of “I’m in!”

This… is not reality. The unglamorous truth is that breaches usually stem from a series of small mistakes in unremarkable things: A system that was overlooked when implementing a new policy. A control configuration that was accidentally loosed. A service that was supposed to be decommissioned but was inadvertently left running.

Breaches stemming from these kinds of mistakes are especially frustrating. You had a control, you know how to properly configure it, and you know what systems to apply the control. But the messy complexity of people and process inside a large organization means mistakes are made, things slip through.

This is what keeps many security leaders up at night, and this is why I have found pairing the configuration and deployment with an external, continuous validation process so helpful. And it’s exactly what I’ve been helping Cloudflare and IONIX customers do for the last several months.

In this article

Cloudflare + IONIX: Continuous Control Validation

Cloudflare is already a powerful security control for web applications, blocking attacks with web application, ensuring proper TLS and certificate best practices, stopping automated bot and agents, and shielding properties from massive DDoS attacks.

But that messy complexity can undermine even the stoutest safeguard, allowing unprotected assets to be exposed, or configurations and policies to be loosed or misapplied, resulting in gaps attackers can exploit.

IONIX combats that by acting as an external validation layer, continuously scanning, validating, and ensuring that Cloudflare’s protections are correctly and completely.

When working with Fortune 500 companies on implementing and maintaining Cloudflare over the last few months, I’ve used a control validation framework built around four key principles:

Most impactful assets go first, no assets left behind

Validate secure and complete deployments

Protect against drift and new threats

Provide the fastest path to remediation

Step 1: Most impactful assets go first, no assets left behind

You can’t apply Cloudflare to systems you don’t know exist. From forgotten marketing sites to orphaned portals at acquired companies, publicly exposed assets often linger outside security’s line of sight. You start by using IONIX to conduct a comprehensive discovery of everything public-facing: websites, CMS instances, login portals, static documentation, and more. You also can use IONIX to understand what each asset is and how it connects to the business. You can also use IONIX to determine what exploitable issues exist in those public assets. You use all of this data to build a prioritize list of assets to onboard into Cloudflare, with the most important assets with the most impactful issues going first.

This is needed because in that messy complexity of organizations with thousands of public-facing sites, you cannot snap your fingers and onboard everything to Cloudflare at once. There are different DNS zones, different owners, and different business units. All this means prioritization is critical. The end goal is simple: make sure nothing that should be protected is overlooked.

Step 2: Validate Secure and Complete Deployments

Assuming you know all your assets, and have a plan to onboard them into Cloudflare, deployment mistakes are inevitable when operating at scale:

Differences in how Cloudflare is set up from a DNS perspective can impact how protection can be applied.

WAF rules loosened to work with certain apps can be mistakenly applied to other apps

TLS settings to support older clients for a specific legacy application can be applied too broadly.

Settings associated with a new application might be changed to make development or testing easier, and then not properly hardened once the application goes live.

I recommend that security organizations define specific policies or settings. For instance:

Marketing CMS systems must sit behind Cloudflare with bot protection.

Any portal with customer data must have WAF rules enabled.

TLS settings must meet best practices

Then as Cloudflare is rolled out, IONIX is used to validate that these policies are being followed and flags any inconsistencies. This ensures that every crown jewel is protected properly, not just on paper, but in practice.

Step 3: Guard Against Drift and New Threats

Security isn’t static. Configurations that are perfect today may drift tomorrow. A partner may require support for outdated TLS protocols. A backup restore might reintroduce an old, insecure configuration. Or someone might disable a WAF rule to troubleshoot an issue and forget to re-enable it.

IONIX continuously checks for regressions, detecting if an origin server is suddenly accessible directly, if Cloudflare protections are disabled, or if settings have been weakened.

Then there are the threats that emerge out of nowhere, like the recent SharePoint zero-day. Because attackers move so quickly, companies need to know immediately: are all vulnerable assets protected behind Cloudflare, and if their current configuration actually protects them.

IONIX gives Cloudflare users confidence by using real-but-non-destructive payloads against public assets and ensuring their Cloudflare configuration is sufficient for new threats.

Step 4: The Fastest Path to Remediation

During these steps, you will find security issues and gaps which can be resolved with a proper Cloudflare configuration and deployment. Finding a problem is only half the battle. Fixing it quickly is what really counts. Too often, security teams understand a security vulnerability but struggle to explain to the non-security experts in IT or development or know how to configure Cloudflare to resolve it.

For example, while working with a major consumer goods company, we found a web application with an exposed settings file. Using IONIX we were able to:

Explain what the problem was using language and terminology the developers could understand.

Prove to the developers that the settings were really accessible remotely.

Even better, IONIX can dynamically re-write its remediation information to be Cloudflare-specific. Instead of just getting generic advice change file permissions, IONIX was provided step by step instructions on how to validate that all web traffic routes through Cloudflare, and how to add a WAF rule to block access to the settings file, with the exact syntax need for this specific issue on this specific domain!

This level of clarity bridges the gap between security and operations, ensuring fixes happen quickly and correctly.

The Security Ratchet

Cybersecurity isn’t just about deploying the right controls, it’s about ensuring they’re used consistently, monitored continuously, and adjusted as the environment evolves.

Cloudflare provides a world-class security perimeter. IONIX ensures that public attack surface is known, validated, and capable of evolving alongside new threats and organizational changes.

The net effect is IONIX and Cloudflare becomes a kind of security ratchet: Cloudflare provides the protection, and IONIX validates its efficacy from the outside, ensuring that you can only tighten down defenses, and never let them loosen.

Come see IONIX and Cloudflare in action at Cloudflare Connect booth 23, Oct 13-16 in Las Vegas. Can’t make it – sign up for a demo here.

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