Tom Kennedy
Vice President, Axonius Federal Systems
Agencies are still stumped by asset management, though it’s been a challenge for most for years. Axonius Federal Systems’ greatest achievement this year will be continuing its rapid growth and adoption in the federal market the company averaged more than 100% growth each year since inception, bringing Axonius to agencies to safeguard mission objectives by strengthening IT asset identification and management.
“All of us at Axonius take tremendous pride in helping our federal customers move closer to fulfilling their missions,” said Dean Sysman, CEO at Axonius. “Tom and the rest of the Axonius Federal Systems leadership have done a great job building a strong team that is attentive to our federal customer needs — we’re excited for the next stages of growth within the federal market.”
Why Watch
In 2024, Axonius will assist dozens of federal agencies with solving the requirements in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Binding Operational Directive 23-01 that requires agencies to identify and inventory assets and vulnerabilities on federal networks.
Tom Kennedy’s team is also enabling the build of zero trust architectures across federal agencies, in fact, the Defense Department’s CIO’s office recently released a summary of best practices across DOD zero trust implementations, and its “initial zero trust checklist” included fundamental steps such as inventory users and the ability to identify, inventory, authorize, authenticate and patch all devices continuously and in real-time.
“In today’s environments, we don’t lack data,” Kennedy said. “In fact, we’ve got, as our CEO says, an abundance of it — a chaos of it. How do we as cyber practitioners take all the data from all the tools, software, applications, devices and users and then put that together into something that makes sense and really works? That’s what we’re here for.”
Fun fact: Kennedy really enjoys the intersection of great technology and serving government missions. Working for a leading cybersecurity company is great on its own, but he finds being a part of a team that supports the important missions of the U.S. federal government is extremely fulfilling.
