Elisity vs Asimily:
2026 Comparison

Introduction

Most organizations have written a segmentation policy and fewer have enforced it. Cisco’s 2026 Segmentation Report found that 79% of organizations call segmentation a priority and only 33% have fully implemented it (<a href=”https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/hypershield/segmentation-report-2026.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Cisco</a>). Elisity and Asimily approach that gap differently: Elisity obtains inventory data from other sources, such as switches, other security products, and Active Directory, then builds identity-based policy and enforces it at supported switches, and Asimily starts from inventory and exploitability and enforces through existing NACs and firewalls. Elisity is also changing owners. On October 12, 2026, IonQ announced an agreement to acquire Elisity in an all-stock transaction valued at up to $1.3 billion, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approval (<a href=”https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001824920/000119312526419609/ionq-ex99_1.htm” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>IonQ press release filed with the SEC, October 12, 2026</a>).

Elisity at a Glance

• Product: a cloud-managed, identity-based microsegmentation platform
• Verifiable strength: enforcement at the switch on supported Cisco, Juniper, Arista, HPE Aruba, and Hirschmann switches (Elisity, October 2026)
• Dated fact: IonQ agreed on October 12, 2026 to acquire Elisity, with closing expected in the fourth quarter (IonQ, October 12, 2026)

1. Inventory and Visibility

Asimily provides a complete, agentless, and non-disruptive inventory across an entire cybersecurity tech stack, functioning as a single source of truth for assets, services, apps, workloads, and middleware. It combines deep packet inspection, AI and ML classification against a library of well over 10,000,000 observed devices and profiles, active querying, flow data, and correlation with over 150 different sources to discover and classify assets. These include Active Directory, CMDB, NAC, DHCP, vulnerability scanners, Mobile Device Management, EDR, and Threat Intelligence. Users can expect nearly 100% of their connected assets, such as IoT, OT, IoMT, and IT devices, workloads, services, applications, middleware, and AI chatbots, to be identified with 98% or higher accuracy. Elisity discovers devices from telemetry on supported switches and enriches them through IdentityGraph connectors such as Active Directory, Okta, CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Claroty xDome (Elisity). For deep IoT, OT, and IoMT classification, it relies on those connected sources.

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Elisity column: Asimily’s October 2026 product comparison with the Elisity platform, plus public Elisity documentation.

2. Exposure Management

Asimily ranks vulnerabilities by exploitability and business impact, and Asimily Labs’ ATT&CK Analysis tests whether each one can be exploited on a specific device in its network context. Device Risk Simulator then models how a fix would change a device’s risk score before anyone acts, and recommendations can address vulnerabilities even when no vendor patch exists. Elisity offers microsegmentation only as a way to mitigate vulnerabilities, without being able to compare simpler methods of risk reduction such as patching or configuration changes.

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Elisity column: Asimily’s October 2026 product comparison with the Elisity platform, plus public Elisity documentation.

3. Threat and Response

Asimily creates anomaly policies that notify or quarantine, and it records packets from monitored devices, on demand or automatically when a policy is violated, so responders start with the traffic itself and not only an alert. Elisity provides threat alerting that is easy to read. The Elisity platform does not include anomaly policies for notification or quarantine, or packet capture for forensics.

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4. Risk Mitigation

Both platforms group assets, simulate segmentation policy before enforcement, and adapt policy as devices change. Asimily’s Segmentation Orchestration creates policy from observed device behavior, Policy Simulation shows which ports and services a policy would block before it deploys, and Enforcement Plan lets administrators inspect each step before commit, rather than asking users to hope that it all works out. Asimily adds IoT Patching, which applies firmware updates to supported IoT device types, with password management. Elisity reviews simulated policy in its Policy Matrix, flags overly permissive policies, and includes a dashboard to track segmentation progress, which Asimily does not.

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An Example: One Policy From Flow to Enforcement
Illustrative example, not a customer story.

1. Observed flows: a badge reader (IoT) talks to one door controller on one port and to one management server.
2. Device profile: model, firmware, open services, and known vulnerabilities, ranked by whether ATT&CK Analysis shows them exploitable.
3. Proposed rule: allow the reader to reach only the controller and the management server, and block everything else.
4. Simulation: run the rule in simulation mode against live traffic and review which ports and services it would block.
5. Enforcement point: Elisity applies the rule at a supported switch. Asimily applies it through the NAC, such as Cisco ISE or Aruba ClearPass, or a supported firewall, and keeps it current as devices change.

5. Enforcement Options

Asimily applies segmentation policy through the NACs and firewalls an organization already runs, so enforcement lands on existing switch infrastructure via the commands pushed down from the NAC/firewall level. Elisity enforces at the firewall-level or switch-level on supported switches through its Virtual Edge software, which runs on or beside the switch.

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Elisity column: Asimily’s October 2026 product comparison with the Elisity platform, plus public Elisity documentation.

6. Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Both platforms keep a change history for audits. Asimily Configuration Control adds snapshots of IoT, OT, and IoMT device configurations that establish a known good state, detect drift, and give teams a reference for recovery after an accidental or malicious change.

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7. Sample Integrations

Both platforms connect to identity and security tools. Elisity’s IdentityGraph draws on sources such as Active Directory, Okta, ServiceNow, and CrowdStrike, with Tenable and Claroty xDome connectors (Elisity support documentation, 2026). Asimily correlates network, identity, vulnerability, endpoint, and service management data into one record per device, so ATT&CK Analysis of vulnerabilities works best with the fullest context, and applies policy through supported NACs and firewalls. Asimily integration categories and sample products include:

• AI & LLM Providers: Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, others
• Network Traffic Sources: NetFlow, SNMP, sFlow
• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Active Directory/LDAP, Azure SSO, Okta
• DHCP & DNS: Infoblox, BlueCat, EfficientIP
• Network Access Control (NAC): Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, Forescout
• Firewalls & Network Infrastructure: FortiGate, Arista Agni, Juniper
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): CrowdStrike, SentinelOne
• CMMS / ITSM: ServiceNow Service Graph, EQ2

Not a complete list; integrations are added regularly.

8. Deployment Considerations

Both platforms avoid endpoint agents. Elisity is managed from a cloud console and enforces through its Virtual Edge software on supported switches (Elisity, October 2026). Asimily offers cloud and on-premises deployment, including for air-gapped and internet-restricted networks, and collects data through the Asimily Edge collector software, which runs on a dedicated appliance, on a virtual machine, or as an app on supported Cisco switches that support application hosting.

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What Time to Value Looks Like
Asimily states that teams can expect value within 48 hours and most devices identified within 14 days. Ask Elisity and Asimily for their own figures in the same terms, and agree what counts as done: devices identified, exposures ranked, or a policy enforced.

Proof-of-Value Checklist

• Agree the device sample and the success measure before the trial starts
• Compare each platform’s device list against your CMDB and NAC records
• Ask each platform to rank the same vulnerable devices and explain the ranking
• Run one policy in simulation and review the blocked ports and services
• Confirm the enforcement point, the rollback step, and who approves a change

When Elisity Fits Better

Elisity is the closer fit for teams that want enforcement at the switch itself: in Asimily’s October 2026 comparison, Elisity can enforce at the switch level on supported Cisco, Juniper, Arista, HPE Aruba, and Hirschmann switches, and Asimily cannot. Elisity also includes a dashboard to track segmentation progress, which Asimily does not, and it builds policy around identity, with IdentityGraph bringing users, devices, and workloads into one context. Teams that value a visual policy console and a well-developed simulation and deployment workflow often point to the Elisity interface as a strength. Gartner named Elisity in its Cool Vendors in Cyber-Physical Systems Security 2025 report, dated September 18, 2025 (Elisity, October 7, 2025). Elisity is most useful where the supported switch footprint already matches the network and identity-based policy is the main goal.

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The Bottom Line

Choose Elisity when switch-level enforcement, a segmentation progress dashboard, and identity-based policy on a supported switch footprint are the priorities. Elisity and Asimily are similar on asset grouping, policy simulation and deployment.

Choose Asimily when the program starts with a complete inventory of IoT, OT, IoMT, and IT assets and needs to tie risk to exploitability before acting. Asimily adds ATT&CK Analysis, Risk Simulator, packet capture, anomaly detection, Configuration Control snapshots, and IoT Patching, and it enforces through the NACs and firewalls already in place.

Choose Elisity when:

• your network is mostly supported Cisco, Juniper, Arista, HPE Aruba, or Hirschmann switches and you want enforcement at the switch
• identity sources such as Active Directory and Okta should drive policy
• you want a dashboard that tracks segmentation progress

Choose Asimily when:

• you need a complete inventory of IoT, OT, IoMT, and IT assets before writing policy
• you want to separate risk from vulnerability severity via an analysis that shows which vulnerabilities are exploitable on which devices
• you already run a NAC or firewall and want policy applied there
• you want IoT Patching to close out weaknesses faster and/or Configuration Control snapshots to avoid configuration drift in the same platform