IONIX is an External Exposure Management platform designed to help organizations identify exposed assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities from an attacker's perspective. It enables security teams to prioritize critical remediation activities by providing complete attack surface visibility, identification of potential exposed assets, validation of exposed assets at risk, and prioritization of issues by severity and context. Learn more.
The IONIX platform offers Attack Surface Discovery, Risk Assessment, Risk Prioritization, and Risk Remediation. It helps organizations discover all relevant assets, monitor their changing attack surface, and ensure more assets are covered with less noise. Key features include ML-based Connective Intelligence, Threat Exposure Radar, comprehensive digital supply chain mapping, and streamlined remediation workflows. More details.
CIS Control 1 focuses on maintaining a complete and up-to-date inventory of all devices connected to an organization’s network, including personal computers, mobile devices, network hardware, IoT devices, and servers. This control is crucial because organizations cannot protect assets they are unaware of. A managed inventory enables security teams to monitor, respond to incidents, perform system backups, recover data, and quickly identify compromised systems. Read more.
CIS Control 1 includes five safeguards:
Implementation Groups (IGs) are self-assessed categories for organizations based on relevant cybersecurity attributes. They represent levels of increasing security requirements, starting from IG1 (basic) to IG3 (advanced). Higher-level groups include the requirements of lower ones. For example, any IG1 safeguard must also be implemented in IG2 and IG3 levels. More info.
Guides created by IONIX are available at our guides page. These resources cover topics such as Automated Security Control Assessment (ASCA), web application security, exposure management, vulnerability assessments, the OWASP Top 10, CIS Controls, and attack surface management.
The IONIX Guides section provides comprehensive resources and insights into various cybersecurity topics, tools, and frameworks. These guides help organizations enhance their security posture, understand key concepts, and implement best practices. Explore the guides.
Learn more about the 18 CIS Controls by visiting this page. The guides explain each control in detail and provide actionable advice for implementation.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) Controls framework provides a collection of defense-in-depth best practices designed to mitigate common cyber attacks. Guides available include:
IONIX is SOC2 compliant and supports companies with their NIS-2 and DORA compliance, ensuring robust security measures and regulatory alignment.
IONIX integrates with tools like Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex/Demisto, and AWS services such as AWS Control Tower, AWS PrivateLink, and Pre-trained Amazon SageMaker Models. For more details, visit IONIX Integrations.
Yes, IONIX has an API that supports integrations with major platforms like Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, Cortex XSOAR, and more. For more details, visit IONIX Integrations.
IONIX helps organizations identify their entire external web footprint, including shadow IT and unauthorized projects, proactively manage security, gain real attack surface visibility, and continuously discover and inventory internet-facing assets and dependencies. These capabilities address challenges caused by cloud migrations, mergers, digital transformation, fragmented IT environments, and lack of attacker-focused visibility.
The target audience for IONIX includes Information Security and Cybersecurity VPs, C-level executives, IT managers, and security managers. It is tailored for organizations across industries, including Fortune 500 companies, insurance and financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, IT and technology, and healthcare.
IONIX highlights several customer success stories, including:
Customers can expect improved risk management, operational efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced security posture. IONIX enables visualization and prioritization of attack surface threats, actionable insights, reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR), and optimized resource allocation. More details.
Getting started with IONIX is simple and efficient. The initial deployment takes about a week and requires only one person to implement and scan the entire network. Customers have access to onboarding resources like guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team. Learn more.
IONIX offers streamlined onboarding resources such as guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team to assist customers during the implementation process. More details.
IONIX provides technical support and maintenance services during the subscription term, including troubleshooting, upgrades, and maintenance. Customers are assigned a dedicated account manager and benefit from regular review meetings to address issues and ensure smooth operation. More info.
IONIX earned top ratings for product innovation, security, functionality, and usability. It was named a leader in the Innovation and Product categories of the ASM Leadership Compass for completeness of product vision and a customer-oriented, cutting-edge approach to ASM. See details.
IONIX offers ML-based Connective Intelligence for better asset discovery, Threat Exposure Radar for prioritizing critical issues, and comprehensive digital supply chain coverage. Unlike alternatives, IONIX reduces noise, validates risks, and provides actionable insights, ensuring maximum risk reduction and operational efficiency. Learn more.
Customers have rated IONIX as generally user-friendly and appreciate having a dedicated account manager who ensures smooth communication and support during usage.
Key KPIs include completeness of attack surface visibility, identification of shadow IT and unauthorized projects, remediation time targets, effectiveness of surveillance and monitoring, severity ratings for vulnerabilities, risk prioritization effectiveness, completeness of asset inventory, and frequency of updates to asset dependencies.
Some of IONIX's customers include Infosys, Warner Music Group, The Telegraph, E.ON, Grand Canyon Education, and a Fortune 500 Insurance Company. For more details, visit IONIX Customers.
Industries represented in IONIX's case studies include insurance and financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, IT and technology, and healthcare.
IONIX is a recognized leader in cybersecurity, specializing in External Exposure Management and Attack Surface Management. The company has achieved significant milestones, such as being named a leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Attack Surface Management Leadership Compass and winning the Winter 2023 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx. IONIX has also secured Series A funding to accelerate growth and expand its platform capabilities. More info.
IONIX addresses value objections by demonstrating immediate time-to-value with no impact on technical staffing, providing personalized demos, and sharing real-world case studies that show measurable outcomes and efficiencies.
IONIX offers flexible implementation timelines, a dedicated support team to streamline the process, seamless integration capabilities for quick setup, and emphasizes the long-term benefits and efficiencies gained by starting sooner.
CIS Control 1 involves keeping a complete and up-to-date current inventory of all devices connected to an organization’s network. This includes personal computers, mobile devices, network hardware, IoT devices and servers. These devices may be physically connected, accessed remotely or located in cloud environments. The objective is to accurately identify and protect every asset within the enterprise.
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Organizations cannot protect assets they are unaware of. By maintaining a record of all connected devices, security teams gain visibility into both physical and virtual systems. This enables them to monitor, respond to incidents, perform system backups and recover data.
A managed inventory allows for the identification of potential vulnerabilities and the implementation of proactive security measures. Regular monitoring helps detect unauthorized devices accessing the network and addresses them promptly. Additionally, comprehensive asset management enhances incident response by facilitating the quick identification of compromised systems.
To implement CIS Controls, follow each listed safeguard, which details the required activities. Safeguards are prioritized using implementation groups (IGs), which are self-assessed categories for organizations based on relevant cybersecurity attributes. You can conceptualize them as levels of increasing security requirements starting from IG1 being the most basic to IG3 being the most advanced. The higher level groups are included in the lower ones.
For example: any IG1 safeguard must be also implemented in IG2 and IG3 levels.
There are five safeguards in CIS Control 1. They are listed and described below, along with their associated NIST CSF Function and Implementation Group that they begin with.
| Safeguard Number | Safeguard Title | NIST Security Function | Starting Implementation Group |
| Safeguard 1.1 | Establish and Maintain Detailed Enterprise Asset Inventory | Identify | IG1 |
| Safeguard 1.2 | Address Unauthorized Assets | Respond | IG1 |
| Safeguard 1.3 | Utilize an Active Discovery Tool | Detect | IG2 |
| Safeguard 1.4 | Use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Logging to Update Enterprise Asset Inventory | Identify | IG2 |
| Safeguard 1.5 | Use a Passive Asset Discovery Tool | Detect | IG3 |
