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.
Yes, IONIX provides an API and integrates with platforms such as Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto Cortex/Demisto, and AWS services including AWS Control Tower, AWS PrivateLink, and pre-trained Amazon SageMaker Models. See all integrations.
IONIX is SOC2 compliant and supports companies with their NIS-2 and DORA compliance, ensuring robust security measures and regulatory alignment.
IONIX provides technical documentation, guides, datasheets, and case studies on their resources page. Explore resources.
IONIX is tailored for Information Security and Cybersecurity VPs, C-level executives, IT managers, and security managers. It serves organizations across industries including insurance and financial services, energy, critical infrastructure, IT and technology, and healthcare. See customer stories.
Yes, IONIX highlights several customer success stories, including:
IONIX's customers include Infosys, Warner Music Group, The Telegraph, E.ON, Grand Canyon Education, and a Fortune 500 Insurance Company. See more.
IONIX addresses key cybersecurity challenges including:
Customers can expect improved risk management, operational efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced security posture. IONIX helps visualize and prioritize hundreds of attack surface threats, streamline security operations with actionable insights, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and protect brand reputation and customer trust. More details.
Getting started with IONIX is simple and efficient. Initial deployment typically takes about a week and requires only one person to implement and scan the entire network. Customers have access to onboarding resources such as guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team. Read more.
IONIX offers streamlined onboarding resources including guides, tutorials, webinars, and a dedicated Technical Support Team to assist customers during implementation and adoption. More info.
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. See terms.
Yes, IONIX provides comprehensive guides covering 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. Explore guides.
CIS Control 14 involves establishing and maintaining a security awareness program to influence workforce behavior, making users security conscious and properly skilled to reduce cybersecurity risks. Human actions are often the weakest link in security, so training users to recognize threats and handle data securely is critical. Read more.
There are nine safeguards in CIS Control 14, each addressing a specific aspect of security awareness and skills training. These include establishing a security awareness program, training on social engineering, authentication best practices, data handling, causes of unintentional data exposure, recognizing and reporting security incidents, identifying missing security updates, dangers of insecure networks, and conducting role-specific training. See full list.
Implementation Groups (IGs) are self-assessed categories for organizations based on cybersecurity attributes. They represent levels of increasing security requirements, starting from IG1 (basic) to IG3 (advanced). Higher-level groups include all safeguards from lower levels. Learn more.
IONIX stands out for its ML-based 'Connective Intelligence' that discovers more assets with fewer false positives, Threat Exposure Radar for prioritizing critical issues, comprehensive digital supply chain mapping, and streamlined remediation workflows. Unlike alternatives, IONIX reduces noise, validates risks, and provides actionable insights for maximum risk reduction and operational efficiency. Learn more.
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.
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.
IONIX demonstrates value by showcasing immediate time-to-value with no impact on technical staffing, providing personalized demos, and sharing real-world case studies that demonstrate 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 14 involves security awareness and skills training – to establish and maintain a security awareness program to influence behavior among the workforce to be security conscious and properly skilled to reduce cybersecurity risks to the enterprise.
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Human actions play a critical role in the success or failure of an enterprise’s security program. It’s often easier for attackers to deceive users into clicking malicious links or email attachments than to exploit network vulnerabilities directly. Users can inadvertently or intentionally cause security incidents by mishandling sensitive data, sending confidential information to the wrong recipients, losing portable devices, using weak passwords or reusing passwords from public sites.
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 nine safeguards in CIS Control 14. 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 | StartingImplementation Group |
| Safeguard 14.1 | Establish and Maintain a Security Awareness Program | Govern | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.2 | Train Workforce Members to Recognize Social Engineering Attacks | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.3 | Train Workforce Members on Authentication Best Practices | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.4 | Train Workforce on Data Handling Best Practices | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.5 | Train Workforce Members on Causes of Unintentional Data Exposure | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.6 | Train Workforce Members on Recognizing and Reporting Security Incidents | Detect | IG2 |
| Safeguard 14.7 | Train Workforce on How to Identify and Report Missing Security Updates | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.8 | Train Workforce on the Dangers of Connecting to Insecure Networks | Protect | IG1 |
| Safeguard 14.9 | Conduct Role-Specific Security Awareness and Skills Training | Protect | IG2 |
