ServiceNow closes Armis

ServiceNow said on April 20 it completed its $7.75 billion cash acquisition of cybersecurity company Armis. (servicenow.com) The deal was announced on December 23, 2025, and ServiceNow said Armis will add real-time discovery and protection across information technology, operational technology, internet-connected devices, medical devices, code and cloud systems. (servicenow.com) Asset visibility is the basic problem Armis sells: companies first need a live inventory of every laptop, server, factory controller and hospital device on their networks before they can judge what is exposed. Armis says its platform is designed to continuously see, protect and manage those assets across enterprise and critical-infrastructure environments. (armis.com) ServiceNow has been building the rest of that stack around workflow software. In March 2026, it closed its Veza acquisition, adding identity security tools that map who and what has access across applications, data, cloud environments and artificial intelligence agents. (servicenow.com) Put together, the two deals give ServiceNow a way to link three pieces that security teams usually buy separately: what assets exist, who can reach them, and what workflow should trigger when risk rises. ServiceNow said the Armis purchase is expected to more than triple its market opportunity for security and risk products. (servicenow.com) The company entered 2026 with momentum in that business. ServiceNow said its security and risk segment crossed $1 billion in annual contract value in the third quarter of 2025, and repeated that milestone in later product and acquisition announcements. (servicenow.com) Armis was one of the larger private cybersecurity companies still outside the public markets before the sale. In October 2024, Armis announced a $200 million Series D round that valued the company at $4.2 billion and said it was eyeing an initial public offering. (armis.com) Regulators had reviewed the combination in at least some jurisdictions before the close. Australia’s competition regulator listed the transaction on its acquisitions register and described Armis as a U.S.-based software company focused on cyber exposure management, especially in operational technology environments. (accc.gov.au) ServiceNow is betting that security buyers want fewer separate consoles and more automation tied to business systems they already use. By closing Armis after Veza, the company has turned that pitch into a larger security platform inside its own software estate. (servicenow.com)