AI Control Tower on its way!
DarkReading.com reported that “…ServiceNow's plans for autonomous cybersecurity, and building a security stack to proactively manage AI.” The December 23, 2025 article entitled " ServiceNow Buys Armis for $7.75B, Boosts 'AI Control Tower'” (https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/servicenow-buys-armis-gets-ai-control-tower) included these comments about ServiceNow:
ServiceNow continues its aggressive shopping spree to build out its cybersecurity capabilities with an agreement to acquire Armis, an information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) cybersecurity platform provider. The $7.75 billion all-cash deal, slated to close in the second half of 2026 pending shareholder and regulatory approvals, is ServiceNow's largest purchase to date, and its fourth cybersecurity acquisition over the past year.
The IT service management provider has been scooping up cybersecurity vendors to expand its IT services portfolio with risk and threat protection as a core component. Just three weeks ago, ServiceNow announced an agreement to acquire the non-human identity provider Veza for an estimated $1 billion. Earlier this month, it closed its $2.85 billion acquisition of agentic AI provider Moveworks, whose AI assistant will play a key role in ServiceNow's plans to secure autonomous workflows and rapidly mitigate security incidents. And just last week, ServiceNow closed an $2.85 billion purchase of OT security provider Mission Control, originally announced in November 2024.
Armis, founded a decade ago by Yevgeny Dibeov and Nadir Izrael, focuses on protecting and managing all connected devices and assets, ranging from IT to OT, Internet of Things, industrial components, and medical devices, across their respective attack surfaces. Armis automatically discovers and inventories insights from billions of connected assets, with the goal of allowing customers to see, understand, and protect their environments holistically.
No surprises here!