Asset Risk Management (ARM)

What is Asset Risk Management?

Asset Risk Management is a discipline that involves discovering, identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks associated with an organization’s assets to ensure their integrity and authenticity. These assets can include physical infrastructure, digital systems, sensitive data, and personnel with access to critical operations.

In computer networks, Asset Risk Management plays a vital role by uncovering vulnerabilities, detecting unauthorized or unmanaged devices, and implementing policies that minimize the potential impact of threats. By continuously monitoring the asset environment and prioritizing risks based on their severity, organizations can maintain resilience, comply with regulations, and support a Zero Trust security posture.

Asset Risk Management (ARM)

Sepio’s Asset Risk Management (ARM) platform delivers comprehensive visibility and control over all hardware assets connected to enterprise endpoints and networks. Leveraging patented technology, Sepio enables instant discovery and control of both known and shadow assets, providing unmatched security and operational insights.

By tapping into data from the physical layer, Sepio reveals the true source of every asset, regardless of who added it or where, offering a level of visibility that traditional, behavior-based solutions cannot match. The platform automatically enforces hardware usage policies, allowing security teams to assess and mitigate risks at any scale.

What sets Sepio’s Asset Risk Management (ARM) platform apart is its ability to generate an objective Asset DNA profile for every device. This capability enhances security across IT, OT, IoT, and peripheral environments, even for assets that lack unique identifiers or are typically invisible to conventional tools. Sepio’s patented algorithms eliminate misleading device profiles and behavioral assumptions, common pitfalls that often undermine even the most advanced cybersecurity solutions. The result is a centralized, scalable, and agnostic solution that delivers holistic, reliable asset visibility, empowering organizations to manage cyber-physical risk with precision and confidence.

Asset Risk Management for IT/OT/IoT Security

Seeing is the critical prerequisite, but what you see is only as useful as what you can do with this knowledge. Sepio helps you instantly understand what needs attention by automatically generating an Asset Risk Factor (ARF) score for every asset. Based on Asset DNA, contextual business data, location, and policy rules, the Asset Risk Factor (ARF) prioritizes risk and provides a new layer of visibility to strengthen Asset Risk Management.

The Asset Risk Factor (ARF) alerts you to high, medium, or low risks, helping to expedite resolution time, identify compliance gaps, and prevent crises. Sepio’s Asset Risk Management platform accounts for any changes to an asset’s ARF by continuously monitoring the entire asset infrastructure to detect behavioral changes and anomalies.

Big data and machine learning, augmented by Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) data sources, provide up-to-date threat intelligence on asset vulnerabilities, further optimizing Asset Risk Management and IT efficiency. This real-time, actionable visibility enables your security team to better understand the asset attack surface and manage risks proactively.

Real-Time Asset Risk Mitigation

Sepio’s Asset Risk Management empowers organizations to take full control of asset risk by automatically enforcing hardware usage policies defined by system administrators. Customers can establish multiple differentiated policies based on various asset hardware characteristics, such as device type, vendor, or custom tags. With flexible, fine-grained control, organizations can effectively manage asset risks in accordance with their specific business needs and regulatory requirements.

Additionally, Sepio’s platform compares each asset’s DNA and Asset Risk Factor (ARF) against your preset rules, automatically linking them to enforced security policies. Any changes to an asset are instantly detected, triggering the appropriate policy response. Assets that violate these policies or are identified as known attack tools by Sepio’s internal database are immediately blocked.

For a comprehensive evaluation of Sepio’s security posture, visit the Sepio Trust Center and explore the Sepio Security Rating.

Centralized Management and Scalability

Sepio streamlines the deployment and management of security policies across diverse device types from a single, unified platform. This centralized approach ensures consistent enforcement and effective protection across all endpoints and network segments, improving operational efficiency while supporting scalability across even the most complex environments

Platform Modules

Sepio offers two complementary modules, Endpoint Device Security and Network Device Security, which can be deployed individually or together to address specific hardware security challenges. The Endpoint Device Security module provides real-time detection and monitoring of all USB-connected assets. It analyzes device capabilities and behavior to deliver accurate risk assessments and enables granular control through allow/block policies for specific assets and interfaces, all powered by a lightweight Sepio agent.

The Network Device Security module continuously monitors the network to detect rogue, passive, invisible, or idle hardware assets, even those operating without traditional identifiers like IP or MAC addresses. It identifies unmanaged network switches and the devices connected to them, helping expose shadow IT and enhance visibility across the entire asset environment.

Asset Risk Mitigation

Effective Asset Risk Management (ARM) requires comprehensive awareness of all assets, as risk mitigation is impossible without full visibility. In today’s rapidly expanding and often unregulated ecosystem, enterprises face significant challenges in monitoring their assets, regardless of their location, installer, or usage. Whether assets are known or unknown, Sepio ensures complete visibility, empowering organizations to manage risks effectively, regardless of where or how those assets are deployed.

Apart from offering extensive insight into the deep physical layer visibility, a robust policy enforcement system suggests optimal policy practices and grants administrators the ability to establish either stringent or highly detailed rules for the system to uphold. These capabilities facilitate the adoption of a zero trust hardware access (ZTHA) approach. Should a device violate the predefined policies, Sepio promptly initiates a mitigation procedure, instantly preventing unauthorized or rogue hardware access control.

IT Asset Management Risks

Sepio delivers measurable value to IT teams by providing complete visibility into all assets, both known and shadow. Our platform empowers IT teams to detect, prioritize, and mitigate asset risks based on contextual behavior and risk factors. With Sepio, you gain full control over your hardware asset landscape, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency.

Schedule a Demo with Sepio’s Asset Risk Management Experts. Our experts will help you understand how to use Sepio’s patented technology to gain control of your asset risks and enhance your asset risk management strategy.