Core6, a leader in data infrastructure security, announced a strategic integration partnership with Armis from ServiceNow, a prominent global authority in cyber exposure management and security. The partnership connects Core6’s flagship platform, StorageGuard (a Storage Security Posture Management, or SSPM, solution), directly into Armis’s real-time continuous asset intelligence ecosystem.
For years, core storage repositories, backup platforms, and disaster recovery arrays have operated in a cyber visibility vacuum. While Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) could readily map connected endpoints, cloud VMs, and network firewalls, the storage layers housing critical enterprise data remained difficult to continuously audit and protect.
The new integration bridges this gap by combining Armis’s asset intelligence with StorageGuard’s authenticated vulnerability and misconfiguration findings. Security teams can now detect, prioritize, and autonomously remediate storage-layer vulnerabilities from a unified view without deploying agents or adopting separate management interfaces.
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Why Storage Infrastructure Has Become Ground Zero
Modern ransomware syndicates and nation-state threat actors have shifted their tactics. Rather than focusing solely on initial data exfiltration, attackers actively target backup catalogs, snapshot repositories, and storage management consoles to sabotage recovery mechanisms prior to launching a payload.
This vulnerability is compounded due to the military utilization of artificial intelligence. It now takes a few minutes for automated scanners to identify changes in baselines, flaws in firmware, or default configurations in storage technologies.
Implications for the Cybersecurity & Data Infrastructure Industry
The partnership reflects a broader paradigm shift across the Cybersecurity and Data Infrastructure industry. Here is how this shift will impact vendors, enterprises, and managed security service providers operating in this space:
1. Death of Security Silos between SecOps and IT Infrastructure
The IT storage management and security operations used to be in silos. IT handled the performance and availability of the storage, and SecOps observed the network and endpoint traffic. It demonstrates how these two areas have converged through the Cyber Exposure Management model, leaving legacy storage providers and security tools either integrate themselves or fall behind.
2. Standardization of Storage Security Posture Management (SSPM)
Similarly to the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) that became the must-have technology for public clouds, the SSPM technology is evolving to become an integral part of enterprise controls. As the DORA, NIST, ISO, CIS, and PCI DSS frameworks call for the proof of resilience, the audit of backup storage in an automated and continuous manner will be expected by default.
3. From Threat Detection to Autonomous Hardening
When threats become automated and run in a second through AI, reactive detection is not enough anymore. This becomes the case with the Core6 and Armis integration, which focuses on the autonomous hardening. The future cybersecurity product development will rely on self-healing infrastructure.