Stop guessing what you have: How three security teams built an asset inventory they could trust

If you’ve ever been asked, “How many assets do we have?” you know the trap. You answer with what your tools say, and then the follow-up comes: “Are you sure?” 

It sounds like a simple question until you try to prove it. Most inventories are stitched together from partial truths, and when Security and IT aren’t aligned on what exists, every program built on that inventory becomes harder to execute.

That’s why teams use the Axonius Asset Cloud to move from incomplete inventories to a view they can trust. By unifying asset data across the tools you already use, Axonius helps teams surface known and unknown assets and establish one inventory everyone agrees on.

Western Union, Epiq, and SafeBreach each faced distinct visibility challenges, but with Axonius, they achieved the same outcome: trusted asset visibility that Security and IT can actually stand behind.

Western Union: Seeing every asset, proving every control

In a global environment, maintaining coverage is only half the battle. The other half is proving that controls are actually in place everywhere they need to be, especially in cloud environments where assets can appear and disappear in hours.

Western Union’s team knows this firsthand. As Douglas Salazar, Engineering Operations Manager, put it: “How do you protect something you can’t see?”

Before Axonius, the team had to piece together assets and control coverage from tools that each told only part of the story. This fragmentation made it challenging to confirm agents and controls were consistently applied across the environment.

Western Union needed one place to validate coverage confidently. To get there, Axonius provided the team with a single inventory, fed by dozens of adapters. From there, the team integrated Axonius with ServiceNow, replacing manual ticket creation with automated tickets linked to coverage gaps and control validation. They also built processes to bring short-lived cloud instances into scope quickly, ensuring coverage remained accurate as the environment changed.

Victor Ureña, Senior Information Security Analyst, summed up what changed: “The only way to gain visibility into these devices is through Axonius. Now we can see them closer to real time.”

The big impact

• Slashed manual workload by 50% for security engineering operations

• Increased asset coverage from 85% to 98%, including ephemeral cloud workloads

• Accelerated audit readiness with on-demand evidence for PCI and SOC audits

Epiq: When IT and Security finally agree on what exists

Western Union shows what it takes to prove coverage at scale. The next challenge is just as common: answering basic scope questions when no one agrees on what exists.

At Epiq, hybrid infrastructure and disconnected systems made asset visibility hard to trust. When it takes too long to answer “What do we own?” or “Is that endpoint secured?”, scope becomes unclear and teams lose time chasing answers across silos.

That’s where Axonius quickly became a go-to resource. As Alyssa Miller, CISO at Epiq, shared: “Everybody thinks Axonius is a security tool, but my IT team loves the platform. It’s the first place they turn every time.”

Epiq used Axonius to consolidate asset and identity data into a single view that IT, Security, and GRC could trust. By normalizing and correlating inventory data across sources, the team surfaced unknown agents and devices and cleared a path for faster decisions.

“I didn’t have to worry about some of those foundational elements of trying to build up an asset inventory,” Alyssa said.

The big impact

• Brought 1,200+ data sources into one source of truth

• Surfaced unknown agents and devices across a global environment to reduce blind spots

• Accelerated troubleshooting and evidence collection with clearer asset context

SafeBreach: Real-time inventory in a cloud that never sits still

Western Union and Epiq prove the difference a trusted inventory makes. In cloud-first environments, the next hurdle is keeping that inventory verifiable as assets shift across accounts and regions.

SafeBreach is cloud-first and AWS-heavy. Great for speed, but brutal for inventory. Avishai Avivi, CISO at SafeBreach, called it a “spaghetti of resources.”

“We couldn’t get visibility or a really good handle on where all the assets are,” Avishai said. “Native tools just aren’t enough.”

Assets were spread across accounts and regions, with no single place to confirm status or ownership. To make inventory verifiable, SafeBreach centralized AWS asset data in Axonius, then normalized it so teams could confirm asset status quickly and tie findings back to in-scope assets. This also eliminated time wasted chasing alerts for assets that no longer existed.

“I know exactly what I have. I know that Axonius will be aware of and report on any new asset that gets added or any assets that drop off,” Avishai said.

The big impact

• Reduced verification time to just a few minutes for stale asset alerts

• Cut investigation overhead, replacing manual chasing with a unified view

• Real-time reporting on assets entering and leaving the environment

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