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Axonius vs ServiceNow

Axonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience. ServiceNow sells Security Operations, a product that unifies security, IT, and risk into a single system of action. CISO Tribune files both under Vulnerability management. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Axonius vs ServiceNow: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
AxoniusAxonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience.axonius.comServiceNowServiceNow sells Security Operations, a product that unifies security, IT, and risk into a single system of action.servicenow.com
What it sells
  • SaaS Applications[8]Extends asset intelligence to the application layer.
  • Cyber-Physical Assets[1][3]Passive OT and IoT asset discovery and exposure management.
  • AI Workforce[1][3]Virtual Workers on routine security checks.
  • AI Companion[9]Answers plain-language questions about the environment.
  • Security Operations[1][2][3]ServiceNow Security Operations unifies security, IT, and risk into a single system of action.
  • Security Incident Response[1][3]Security Incident Response uses AI-assisted playbooks that help contain threats.
  • Unified Security Exposure Management[1][2][3]Unified Security Exposure Management comes as the next evolution of Vulnerability Response.
  • Third-party Risk Management[4]Third-party Risk Management centralizes vendor risk in one system.
  • Identity and Access Security[5]Identity and Access Security addresses risk across human, non-human, and AI agent identities.
  • Super Intelligence Control Tower[6]Super Intelligence Control Tower is a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure any AI across an enterprise.
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Headquarters
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Recent news
  • November 3, 2026Axonius appointed Thais Lima as chief revenue officer and Lior Mozel as chief technology officer.[15]
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G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 5, 2026[16]
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  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[9]
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Who it fits
From its own pages, Axonius sells mainly to security, IT, and GRC teams that need a reconciled view of their assets. Axonius Federal Systems serves U.S federal agencies. Axonius says its healthcare offering is purpose-built for hospitals. Axonius says customers of all sizes use it for SaaS environments, and customers of all kinds and sizes use it to secure software assets. Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets covers OT and IoT environments.From its own pages, ServiceNow sells mainly to organizations that run business functions across IT, HR, customer service, finance and procurement, in all industries and business types. Security Incident Response includes handing security incidents off to new analysts, and a view of security and risk metrics that executives can use. ServiceNow describes its platform as the cloud-based foundation for all of its products.
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Where they overlap

  • Axonius and ServiceNow are both filed under Vulnerability management.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Axonius's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM); ServiceNow's is GRC and integrated risk platforms.
  • Axonius is also filed under SaaS security posture and IoT and medical device security. ServiceNow is also filed under Incident response and forensics.
  • Axonius lists SaaS Applications, Cyber-Physical Assets, AI Workforce and AI Companion. ServiceNow lists Security Operations, Security Incident Response, Unified Security Exposure Management, Third-party Risk Management, Identity and Access Security and 1 more.

What it sells: Axonius

What SaaS Applications does[8]
Axonius SaaS Applications extends asset intelligence to the application layer, discovering every app in use and correlating it to the devices, identities, and exposures it touches. Teams uncover shadow SaaS, close hygiene gaps, prioritize SaaS-driven risk, and reclaim wasted spend from one place. Axonius discovers SaaS through the integrations and identity sources already in a customer's stack, with no agents, no proxies, and no inline inspection.
What AI Workforce does[1][3]
Axonius offers AI Workforce, which puts Virtual Workers on routine security checks. Axonius describes role-based agents that solve security problems end-to-end, on demand or on a recurring schedule, and flag findings, issue fixes, and offload manual work. Axonius says users decide how much each worker does on its own, from off, to human in the loop, to live.

What it sells: ServiceNow

What Security Operations does[1][2][3]
Security Operations consolidates signals from any SIEM, EDR, TIP, scanner, or cloud and maps them to the CMDB for business context. Security Operations applies threat intel and AI to prioritize and act.
What Security Incident Response does[1][3]
Security Incident Response triggers automated containment and remediation tasks across security and IT tools. Security Incident Response coordinates major security incidents in a dedicated workspace with task tracking, integrated collaboration, and executive status reporting.
What Unified Security Exposure Management does[1][2][3]
Unified Security Exposure Management consolidates findings from scanners, cloud, containers, and code into one workflow. Unified Security Exposure Management maps issues to the CMDB for context, prioritizes risks using threat intelligence and AI scoring, and automates remediation.
What Third-party Risk Management does[4]
Third-party Risk Management automates assessments, monitors vendor changes, and routes remediation tasks to the right teams to manage risk consistently across suppliers. Third-party Risk Management centralizes issue tracking across all vendors and automates escalation workflows.
What Identity and Access Security does[5]
Identity and Access Security examines users, groups, roles, and policies to uncover the actual permissions each identity has for specific resources across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises systems. Identity and Access Security discovers non-human identities, maps permissions and blast radius, assigns owners, and reduces sprawl.
What Super Intelligence Control Tower does[6]
Super Intelligence Control Tower auto-discovers agents, models, copilots, MCP servers, and datasets across an enterprise and displays them in a unified inventory tied to the CMDB. Super Intelligence Control Tower tracks AI identity and access, blocks prompt injections, and includes a kill switch to stop an AI agent.

Questions about Axonius and ServiceNow

What do Axonius and ServiceNow sell?
Axonius sells SaaS Applications, Cyber-Physical Assets, AI Workforce and AI Companion. ServiceNow sells Security Operations, Security Incident Response, Unified Security Exposure Management, Third-party Risk Management, Identity and Access Security and 1 more.
Are Axonius and ServiceNow in the same category?
They share Vulnerability management. Axonius's primary category is Cyber asset inventory (CAASM) and ServiceNow's is GRC and integrated risk platforms.
Who are Axonius and ServiceNow sold to?
From its own pages, Axonius sells mainly to security, IT, and GRC teams that need a reconciled view of their assets. From its own pages, ServiceNow sells mainly to organizations that run business functions across IT, HR, customer service, finance and procurement, in all industries and business types.
What have Axonius and ServiceNow announced recently?
November 3, 2026: Axonius appointed Thais Lima as chief revenue officer and Lior Mozel as chief technology officer.

About Axonius

Axonius sells asset intelligence that security and IT teams use to discover what is unknown, fix what is exposed, and prove cyber resilience. Axonius says every asset is correlated and deduplicated into one verified record, with AI assets inventoried alongside everything else.[2][3][4]

Axonius says security teams are not struggling with a lack of data but cannot trust the data they have. Axonius connects to 1,400+ data sources, from endpoint agents and cloud providers to SaaS apps and identity and access management solutions, and correlates everything into a single, reconciled asset record. Axonius says it continuously reconciles data across sources so the inventory stays accurate as the environment changes. Axonius says its asset data is configured entirely through API-based adapters, with no agents and no scanners required. Axonius says API adapters pull from security, IT, identity, cloud, and SaaS tools, and network collectors bring in IoT and OT and shadow IT devices.[5][6][7]

Axonius offers a system of record for all digital infrastructure, aimed at keeping every asset across every system continuously known, including AI tools. Axonius Software Assets automatically inventories software across all devices, managed or unmanaged. Axonius SaaS Applications extends asset intelligence to the application layer, discovering every app in use and correlating it to the devices, identities, and exposures it touches. Axonius discovers SaaS through the integrations and identity sources already in a customer's stack, with no agents, no proxies, and no inline inspection. Axonius says identity risk spans service accounts, API keys, and AI agents, and that Axonius unifies every identity. Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets extends the Axonius Platform to deliver passive OT and IoT asset discovery, continuous asset inventory, contextual risk intelligence, and exposure management across cyber-physical environments.[3][7][8]

Axonius AI turns a plain-language question into an answer grounded in the live environment and, with approval, acts on it. The Axonius AI Companion is described as a security partner that understands the environment, assets, and business context, and users ask in plain language about their attack surface. Axonius offers AI Workforce, which puts Virtual Workers on routine security checks. Axonius describes role-based agents that solve security problems end-to-end, on demand or on a recurring schedule, and flag findings, issue fixes, and offload manual work. Axonius says Virtual Workers review the environment on a schedule, flag what needs attention, and explain why. Axonius offers an MCP Server that brings asset data to Claude, an IDE, or custom agents. Axonius says it discovers AI assets in an environment, from ungoverned SaaS to non-human identities and rogue software usage, and covers devices, SaaS, cloud, and development pipelines.[1][3][9][10][11]

For exposure management, Axonius says it correlates findings with asset ownership, business criticality, coverage status, network exposure, and attack paths. Axonius says its 1,400+ integrations span 40+ asset types. Axonius says AI recommends the fix, opens a ready-to-work ticket, and can track it to closure. Axonius says its Action Center offers over 600 actions across adapters, such as sending a notification, opening a ticket in an ITSM, or isolating a device. Axonius says it gives cyber incident response teams the asset intelligence needed to identify what is affected, who owns it, and how to fix it. Axonius says its bi-directional adapters push notifications to downstream systems, such as creating ServiceNow or Jira tickets, isolating devices, or updating CMDBs. Axonius says it closes endpoint compliance gaps by surfacing devices missing EDR, vulnerability scanning, and SSO controls. Axonius says it turns a CMDB from a static inventory into a source of truth continuously reconciled with what is in the environment.[5][10][12][13]

Axonius says it helps Security validate and document operational control coverage, while GRC remains responsible for control ownership, framework interpretation, exceptions, and audit decisions.[6]

Axonius Federal Systems helps U.S federal agencies comply with cybersecurity regulations by uncovering every asset. Axonius says its healthcare offering is purpose-built for hospitals, and it unifies security and operations across medical, IoT, OT, and IT assets. Axonius says it discovers and classifies every medical device with over 150 attributes per asset. Axonius for Healthcare integrates with NAC, firewalls, ticketing systems, and CMMS tools. Axonius cites Brooks Running as a customer that gains real-time asset visibility to secure global growth. Bedfordshire Hospitals, an Axonius customer, says it expects greatly reduced risk from its medical devices once risk reduction activities have been applied.[1][3][7][8][10][12][14]

Axonius on the record

Sources

Axonius full record

  1. [1]NewsroomAxonius · axonius.com · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Axonius earns 2025 great place to work certificationAxonius · axonius.com · published October 16, 2025 · Tier A
  3. [3]The Asset Intelligence Platform | Axonius.comAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Platform | The Axonius Asset Cloud | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]IT Asset Discovery tools | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Continuous Security Control Monitoring | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Axonius Asset Cloud | Axonius Software Assets | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Axonius Asset Cloud | Axonius SaaS Applications | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]AI for Security | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]AI-Powered Exposure Management | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Security for AI: Discover Every AI Asset | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Solutions and Accountability for Security, IT and GRC | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]Cyber Incident Response | Axonius | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Axonius | Platform | Axonius for Healthcare | AxoniusAxonius · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Axonius Appoints Thais Lima as Chief Revenue Officer and Lior Mozel as Chief Technology OfficerAxonius · published November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  16. [16]Axonius Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier C

ServiceNow full record

  1. [1]servicenow.comServiceNow · servicenow.com · undated page, accessed November 5, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Vulnerability Response – Threat Intelligence - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]Security Incident Response Pricing - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Third-Party Risk Management – ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Identity and Access Security | Risk Management - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Super Intelligence Control Tower - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]IT Asset Management - ITAM - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Resource Management - ServiceNowServiceNow · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]ServiceNow IT Service Management Reviews 2026G2 · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier C

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