I've evaluated four of these tools as a buyer. Here's what I'd tell another security engineer doing the same.
Forescout, Armis, Asimily, Claroty, and Nozomi are all good at what they do. I've run pilots with three of them in past roles. None of them sees Layer 1 the way CybrIQ does, and CybrIQ doesn't replicate what they do. Most enterprises run two or three of these tools because the gaps don't all close with the same product. This page tells you where each one fits and where each one doesn't.
Where each tool actually operates
The OSI layer where detection happens decides everything else: what you can see, what you can't, what an attacker can hide from. Filled circle = primary detection at that layer. Half-filled = partial coverage. Empty = doesn't see that layer at all.
One note: CybrIQ doesn't sniff Layer 1 wire traffic. We poll the switches and resolve the device against a 750M+ reference database. The L1 row is "primary" because the resolved identity is the physical device, not a higher-layer abstraction the device claims about itself.
If you stared at that diagram and thought "everyone is competing for L2 and the higher rows," you're seeing the same thing I saw the first time I drew it. The L1 row is empty because nobody else built for it. That's the moat. That's also why CybrIQ isn't a replacement for anything else on the chart.
What I'd tell you about each one
Forescout
NAC done well. I've run it in two enterprises. If you need 802.1X enforcement, MAB for the agentless devices, and quarantine policy that actually works at scale, Forescout earns its place. The lift is real: you'll spend a quarter tuning policies and another sorting out the devices that don't authenticate cleanly. Then it works. The gap is that it sees what it can authenticate and infer; the unmanaged switch your contractor plugged in last week is invisible to it. That's where we come in. Most Forescout shops we talk to are not replacing Forescout. They're adding L1 visibility underneath it and wiring our events into Forescout's quarantine API.
Armis
The IoT-visibility platform that scaled. ML-based device classification with a large training corpus they've built over years of customer deployments. Strong on devices that produce enough traffic to profile. Weak on devices that are quiet, agentless, or short-lived. The strength and the weakness are the same thing: it's traffic-based inference. If the traffic isn't there, neither is the visibility. We sit below their traffic layer. Plenty of Armis customers run CybrIQ alongside, particularly in healthcare and manufacturing where there's a class of devices that don't talk enough for ML to learn them.
Asimily
Built for medical IoT and broadened from there. If your environment is biomed-heavy (infusion pumps, MRI, patient telemetry), Asimily has the protocol depth Armis doesn't have for that segment. If you're not in healthcare, it's the wrong tool. I haven't seen Asimily win deals outside healthcare and adjacent regulated industries.
Claroty
OT and ICS deep packet inspection. If your problem is SCADA, PLCs, DNP3, Modbus, or anything else that lives on the plant floor, Claroty is the serious answer. I've seen it deployed in two manufacturing environments and one critical-infrastructure operator. The product works. The gap is purely scope: it's designed for industrial-control protocols, and outside that scope it's not the right tool. If you also run an enterprise IT network with conference rooms, executive offices, and corporate desktops, you'll want something else for those segments. We're often that something else.
Nozomi
OT visibility plus ML for behavioral anomaly. Same scope as Claroty with a different center of gravity. Nozomi leans harder into the ML-based-behavioral side; Claroty leans harder into the protocol-knowledge side. Both are credible. Pick by procurement preference and which vendor you've already built relationships with. The tradeoff with the ML angle is the AI-attack exposure I cover on the AI threats page. If you care about adversarial-evasion resistance specifically, that's worth a conversation.
CybrIQ (us)
Layer 1. Deterministic. No model. We do one specific thing that nobody else on this chart does. We don't pretend to do the things any of them do. If your problem is OT protocols, go to Claroty or Nozomi. If your problem is medical IoT, Asimily. If your problem is NAC enforcement, Forescout or ISE. If your problem is "I don't actually know what's on my network and the asset register has been wrong for years," that's us.
Where each tool lives in your environment
A second axis the OSI matrix doesn't show: what each tool physically deploys as. Hardware appliances are a different procurement and security conversation than software you run yourself.
The footprint matters for procurement (hardware budget vs. software license), for security review (supply-chain story differs between hardware and software vendors), and for operational ownership (who pages who when the box breaks). CybrIQ sits in the on-prem-software band, which is the smallest procurement conversation in this comparison and the simplest software-supply-chain story.
How I'd combine them
Most security stacks I've worked in ran two or three of the tools on this chart. Single-vendor coverage is mostly a procurement fantasy.
Manufacturing or industrial
Run Claroty or Nozomi for the OT plane. Add CybrIQ for the IT side: conference rooms, executive offices, anywhere you have wired infrastructure that isn't a PLC. Two tools, two clean jobs. The boundary between them is the air gap or VLAN segmentation between IT and OT, which you already have for reasons that aren't us.
Healthcare
Run Asimily or Armis for the biomed plane. Add CybrIQ for HIPAA-mandated inventory accuracy on the non-medical infrastructure: clinic-side networks, conference rooms, finance areas, ambulatory sites. The biomed tools don't have coverage there. The split usually maps onto how the hospital network is already segmented.
Corporate enterprise
Run Forescout for NAC enforcement. Add CybrIQ for the Layer 1 visibility and audit-evidence path Forescout's 802.1X view doesn't produce. Forescout pushes policy; we generate the evidence. We've watched this exact combination land at three customers in the last 18 months. The integration is one syslog stream into Forescout plus the SOAR-action endpoint that asks Forescout to quarantine a port when we see a substitution.
Federal contractor or NDAA scope
Run CybrIQ as the primary detection for banned-vendor hardware. We're the only tool on the chart that can spot a relabeled banned-vendor camera through the Layer 1 fingerprint when every higher-layer marker has been forged. Add Forescout or ISE for the quarantine path. We page; they isolate.
Pure AV environments
RoomIQ specifically, our per-room product. None of the other tools were built for AV networks. They'll see traffic if there's enough of it. They won't catch a swapped codec, an unmanaged switch behind a dealer board, or a Hikvision camera that someone in procurement bought without realizing it was on the NDAA list.
When the answer is one of the others, not us
A short list. I've turned away pilots that landed in any of these buckets.
- Your primary need is OT protocol analysis. Claroty or Nozomi. We don't do DNP3 or Modbus inspection.
- Your primary need is medical IoT behavioral profiling. Asimily. We don't profile infusion-pump behavior.
- Your primary need is NAC enforcement. Forescout or Cisco ISE. We produce events; we don't push policy.
- You operate a wireless-only environment. Armis. We need wired ports to observe.
- You're trying to consolidate to fewer tools. None of the answers on this chart will do that. Security stacks have many specialized gaps. Anyone selling you single-vendor coverage is selling you wishful thinking.
Bring the other tools you're evaluating. We'll walk through where each one fits.
A working session where we sketch out the combination your environment actually needs, including the cases where the right combination doesn't include us.
Pick the right combination