An Interview With Ivan Dwyer

Check out Axonius here: https://ul.live/axonious_yt I had a blast chatting with Ivan from Axonius about why asset management is evolving into the ultimate "decision infrastructure" for modern enterprises. We geeked out over how the AI boom is finally forcing companies to get their foundational context right! If you're into fixing the fundamentals to build self-healing environments, you're going to love this one! What we talk about: From Asset Management to Asset Intelligence: How the shift to cloud and AI has made static spreadsheets obsolete, and why dynamic "Asset Intelligence" is the new baseline for reconciling our crazy attack surfaces. Context as the Ultimate Asset: Why business, IT, and security data (the "triple context") is the foundational substrate you absolutely need to prioritize vulnerabilities and build true decision infrastructure. Finding the "Negative Space" in Security: We dig into how the Axonius platform uses over 1,400 bidirectional adapters to spot the gaps—like exactly where your endpoint agents are missing or broken—by piecing together the truth from all your different tools. Security for AI vs. AI for Security: Our thoughts on treating new AI tools and identities as first-class assets on your attack surface, plus how natural language queries and AI-driven explainability are getting baked right into the platform. Verified Assets and Self-Healing Environments: The upcoming push towards stamping assets as "verified" so you can trust automated actions, and how nailing these fundamentals brings us closer to the holy grail of self-healing networks. 00:00 - Introductions and the primary problem Axonius is solving with asset intelligence in dynamic environments. 04:37 - The transition from being a specific security tool to becoming a broad "business context layer" or substrate for the entire enterprise. 08:40 - Customer discussions surrounding AI readiness and using rich asset data as foundational input for their AI strategies. 14:19 - An overview of the Axonius platform's architecture, including its adapter network, data ingestion, and orchestration capabilities. 18:56 - Adding "magic sauce" to the platform: the dual challenge of securing AI assets and utilizing AI for query explainability. 23:16 - Exciting upcoming releases for Black Hat, including new IoT/OT asset capabilities and the introduction of "verified assets". Subscribe to the newsletter at: https://danielmiessler.com/subscribe Join the UL community at: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade Follow on X: https://x.com/danielmiessler Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmiessler/