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Privacy is incredibly important in public opinion, technology must be implemented correctly to ensure data is private.

Armis has quantified normalcy. Armis has created a two-tailed, 95% confidence interval for the amount of information a piece of hardware should be transmitting or taking up. At the end of the day, bandwidth is money. Every bit of power consumed is impacting the bottom line. Armis collects metadata from its partners and customers to create a normal identity for how an object or “thing” in IoT should behave. This creates a set standard for the amount of bandwidth consumption an object should use. If the device is performing beyond the normal consumption zone then all objects of its type are raised to security alerts. The Armis portal will notify everyone who runs this type of IoT device.

This is one of the coolest security technologies I have seen. As a former Network Engineer, I see great value in quantifying the amount of unauthorized data being transmitted, consuming bandwidth.

I had the opportunity to spend my Valentines Day with a few folks from the Armis team (Thank you to their wives) including their CTO Nadir Israel. They brought technologist and purchasers together in St. Louis to showcase their new technology. Since being introduced to Armis I continue to hear their name via various channels. Armis is certainly one company to keep an eye on!

To recap-

Armis Security is software that sits on “unagentable” or “unfirewallable” devices. These are typically IoT devices that do not have the capacity to have security software built into the system. Armis secures these by monitoring the network traffic the “device” consumes and cross-checks this against a database of “normal” devices of the same type.