Epiq X Axonius | Case Study Timeline

HOW IT STARTED.

Let’s throw it back to 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing, security departments faced a slew of new challenges, and gaining visibility into increasingly complex IT environments was paramount — but achieving it became more complex than ever before.

It’s at this time four years ago that Epiq, a full-service legal technology provider, first leveraged the Axonius Platform to meet its asset management needs. But the company didn't stop there. Fast forward four years and to a new CISO, and Axonius continues to be known affably as the team’s Swiss Army Knife — serving as much more than just a cybersecurity tool. This timeline shares the highlights of the Epiq x Axonius journey over the past few years.

Senior VP and CISO Jerich Beason joins the Epiq team. He immediately begins implementing a transformational strategy for security. Faced with safeguarding sensitive information and securing unknown assets and devices, he quickly realizes asset management must be a core pillar.
Lacking a robust asset management tool, Beason and his team find that gaining a complete asset inventory is impossible — creating constant roadblocks. Locating security gaps and deciding where to apply certain controls are also major challenges. It’s time to find an asset management solution that provides a complete picture of Epiq’s attack surface. But… where to start?
Beason opts to build an asset management tool in-house — but is convinced by Epiq’s VP of the Cyber Fusion Center to consider Axonius instead. After seeing a proof of concept and hearing how many teams across Epiq want to use the product, Beason decides Axonius is the right choice for Epiq’s needs.
Just months after discovering Axonius, the Epiq team starts seeing results. Using the Axonius Platform gives Epiq a much shorter time to value in gathering and correlating asset data, identifying gaps, and making security decisions.
Beason and the team encounter integration issues. After realizing that some data sources don’t communicate with the pre-built integrations in Axonius, Epiq works with Axonius customer service to quickly build new, custom adapters that give them exactly the data they need.
By leveraging Axonius as a single source of truth, the Epiq team breaks down organizational silos and communicates more effectively across functions. Three-fourths of the IT staff request access to Axonius to solve their own problems after hearing about its effectiveness. At Epiq, Axonius isn’t just the starting point for incident response — but for the rest of IT’s support processes as well.
Alyssa Miller joins Epiq as CISO in 2022, and Axonius helps her get up to speed quickly. “I didn't have to worry about some of those foundational elements of trying to build up an asset inventory or trying to visualize what across the environment was already in place. The Axonius connectors we utilized made it easier for me as an incoming CISO just to even understand the environment,” she says.
The security team discovers key gaps that allow them to revisit how they manage certificates and approach this process more proactively. This is “a perfect example of how the strength of [Axonius] integrations can be leveraged in ways that permeate through our entire environment and be a tool for every team across our organization,” says Miller.
Leveraging the Microsoft Entra ID adapter, Epiq not only discovers assets that need connections, but easily measures progress. The team also gains clarity on where legacy technology creates security gaps and what technology needs to be updated.
Epiq migrates to the cloud. During this transition, Axonius provides greater visibility into the environment, showing exactly where technologies are deployed and expediting the onboarding process for new partners.
Even after using Axonius for years, the Epiq team is still finding new implementations to add to their environments.

Resource Center

Case Studies

Blog

Glossary

Epiq x Axonius: Four Years and Counting of Visibility and Growth

HOW IT STARTED.

HOW IT'S GOING.

SEE AXONIUS FOR YOURSELF.