How Epiq Powers Security Decisions with Axonius

Alyssa Miller, CISO at Epiq, has spent more than 20 years in cybersecurity. She joined Epiq about three and a half years ago and leads the company’s global cybersecurity strategy.

Epiq’s environment isn’t complex because it’s messy. 

It’s complex because it’s varied:

• On-prem servers and cloud-native applications

• New, cutting-edge systems and unavoidable tech debt

• Internal applications plus B2B and consumer-facing services

• Different risk profiles depending on who the system serves and how it’s exposed

As Alyssa put it: “Every company is a special snowflake… we all have our things.”

• And in that kind of estate, the threat landscape doesn’t wait for your inventory spreadsheet to catch up.

Without a trusted view of the enterprise, security teams can’t:

• Accurately calculate exposure (no denominator, no risk math)

• Prioritize zero-day response across the right systems

• Route remediation to the teams who can actually fix the issue

• Prove control coverage for audits and customers

• Trust what the CMDB says versus what’s really deployed

In other words, response speed, compliance confidence, and operational alignment are all downstream of asset truth.

This is where Axonius changes the game.

By continuously correlating data across cloud, endpoint, identity, and infrastructure systems, Axonius replaces fragmented assumptions with a single, defensible view of reality.

Not what should be there. Not what one tool can see. But what actually exists,  right now.

For Alyssa and her team, that visibility isn’t just helpful.  It’s the prerequisite for every security decision that follows.

Epiq didn’t need another dashboard. They needed a way to connect the estate. Alyssa framed Axonius simply: it’s “all about the adapters.”

Epiq uses Axonius integrations to ingest and correlate signal from:

• cloud providers (resources, assets, configurations)

• build and deployment tooling (servers, containers, runtime environment)

• security controls across the stack (endpoint and beyond)

• infrastructure sources (network, workstations, server layers)

Then Axonius does the part that’s usually painful: correlation, the work of translating raw signals into meaningful context security teams can act on.

Epiq doesn’t treat Axonius as “incident response.” They treat it as the engine behind incident response decisions.

Turning alerts into action

From a SecOps perspective, Axonius helps Epiq enrich alerts in the SIM and accelerate investigation when the clock is ticking:

• Zero-day intelligence → “Where do we have that software installed?”

• IOC investigations → “What changed? Where is it present?”

• User activity investigations → “Where has that user been and what actions occurred?”

• Forensic lookback → “What changed within assets over time?”

Alyssa described it as more than augmentation: Axonius “helps power our incident response processes… gathering so much data from around the environment… network, servers, workstations, cloud-native infrastructure.” In real-world IR, the delay isn’t always detection, it’s the time spent answering:

• What is it?

• Where is it?

• How bad is it?

• Who owns it?

In most security programs, detecting issues isn’t the hardest part anymore. What slows teams down is everything that comes after detection. 

Alerts arrive. Vulnerabilities are identified. Threat intelligence flags exposure.

And then the real question hits: Who actually owns this - and who can fix it?

As Alyssa put it: “You can identify an issue… but if you can’t identify ownership, you can’t fix it at speed.”

Before Axonius, that gap between detection and action created friction across every response workflow. Investigations often started with incomplete identifiers, an IP address, a hostname, or a system tag, but lacked the operational context needed to move fast.

With Axonius, Epiq transformed that reality.

In just a few months, Epiq went from:

12,000 assets with identified owners → to nearly 200,000 assets with ownership mapped

That shift didn’t just improve reporting. It fundamentally changed how quickly the organization can respond to risk.

What “Ownership” Really Means in Practice

Alyssa explained that remediation is rarely a straight line:

• Threat intelligence often arrives attached to a simple indicator, like an IP address

• That IP may map to a virtual IP (VIP)

• Which maps to a cluster

• Which maps to multiple servers

• Which still isn’t actionable until you know what software is running

• And ultimately, who is responsible for fixing it

“Without that full chain of context, response stalls, not because teams aren’t capable, but because they don’t know where responsibility actually sits.” - Alyssa

That’s why Alyssa described ownership mapping as: “Crucial for a timely response.

“With Axonius correlating infrastructure, software, and organizational data into a single view, security teams can now move directly from detection to decision to action, without wasting critical hours chasing the right owner.” - Alyssa

For Epiq, that means faster remediation, less operational friction, and a security team that spends more time reducing risk and less time playing detective.

Epiq uses ServiceNow today and feeds it with Axonius.

What matters isn’t that Axonius “connects to the CMDB.” What matters is what Epiq does with the connection:

• Validate discrepancies between CMDB and Axonius

• Identify redundant assets and gaps

• Determine what’s actually correct (the “true story”)

• Use correlation signals from either side to resolve mismatches faster
  
  

Alyssa described the value as quickly understanding “what the true story is” and what caused inconsistencies. In practice, that means the CMDB becomes far more reliable, with Axonius continuously validating it against real-world data.

Epiq’s compliance obligations are driven by both customer commitments and regional regulations, including:

• ISO 27001

• Cyber Essentials Plus (UK)

• TISAX for automotive-sector clients

Each of these frameworks requires more than policy documentation. Auditors expect verifiable evidence of asset inventories, software usage, security controls, and configuration standards, often across multiple environments and business units.

“When auditors ask for samples or inventories, Axonius is kind of the first place we’re going to stop to get that information,” Alyssa explained.

Because Axonius continuously aggregates and correlates data from cloud platforms, endpoint tools, identity systems, and infrastructure sources, Epiq is able to answer audit questions with real operational data, not point-in-time snapshots.

That changes the entire audit model.

Instead of pulling teams into last-minute evidence collection, exporting spreadsheets, and reconciling conflicting reports, Epiq can:

• Instantly identify which assets are in scope for a given audit

• Validate which systems have required security controls in place

• Provide accurate software inventories tied to real devices and owners

• Demonstrate coverage across hybrid and cloud environments

Just as important, Axonius helps surface discrepancies between systems, revealing when CMDB records, security tools, and infrastructure platforms don’t agree.

That means audit prep isn’t just about producing evidence. It becomes a continuous validation process that improves operational accuracy long before an auditor ever arrives.

The result is a fundamentally different posture:

• No frantic data calls across IT and security teams

• No manual reconciliation of competing inventories

• No rebuilding asset lists for every new framework or customer request

Instead, compliance becomes a byproduct of strong operational visibility, with Axonius serving as the system of truth that bridges security, IT, and governance requirements.

For Epiq, audit readiness isn’t an annual project. It’s an ongoing state of confidence.