Armis vs MedCrypt (2026)
Both work on medical device security, for opposite buyers. Armis sells to hospitals. Armis Centrix finds and classifies the connected devices on a network, matches them to FDA recalls and MDS2 forms, and can quarantine one automatically. ServiceNow completed its acquisition of Armis in April 2026. MedCrypt sells to device manufacturers. Its lead service takes a device team through an FDA premarket cybersecurity submission, with threat modeling, document generation, audit scans and advisory hours from former FDA reviewers. Helm manages software bills of materials and vulnerabilities across a device portfolio. A language model enriches Helm's vulnerability records. Choose Armis if you run the hospital network; choose MedCrypt if you build the devices and file the submissions.
- You run a hospital network and need to know what is connected to it.
- Recalls and advisories should be matched to the devices you own.
- You want device risk worked inside ServiceNow, which now owns Armis.
- You make devices and are preparing an FDA premarket cybersecurity submission.
- You need SBOM, VEX and VDR exports across a device portfolio.
- Published prices suit how you buy: $35,000 per product line a year, or $499 per user a month for Helm.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Armis and MedCrypt are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Armis | MedCrypt |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Healthcare Cybersecurity | Healthcare Cybersecurity |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2016 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | Solana Beach, California, United States |
| Website | armis.com | medcrypt.com |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Armis sells Armis Centrix, a cyber exposure management platform covering IT, OT, IoT, medical devices, cloud and code. ServiceNow completed its acquisition of Armis on 20 April 2026; the company now presents itself as Armis from ServiceNow, and Armis Centrix is integrated with the ServiceNow AI Platform and still sold on its own.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Medcrypt sells cybersecurity compliance software and services to medical device manufacturers rather than to hospitals. Its lead offer, Medcrypt Security Intelligence (MSI), takes a device team through an FDA premarket cybersecurity submission and what follows it: a free readiness check scored against the domains FDA reviews, threat modeling and risk assessment, document generation, audit scans of a submission package against FDA requirements, deficiency letter responses, and postmarket monitoring through MedISAO membership, with advisory hours from former FDA reviewers in every tier.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Armis and MedCrypt work with the EHR?
For Armis, the integrations page names Cisco ISE, Check Point, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira, BMC, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender among "hundreds of pre-built API integrations". The medical device page says policies are enforced through the customer's firewalls, switches and network access control, and that "integrations with CMMS and ticketing systems automate the creation of work orders".
With MedCrypt, the Helm documentation covers an API and SDK, a GitHub Action and an Azure DevOps extension that ingest SBOMs from build pipelines, and exports that send vulnerabilities to Jira and to AWS; SBOMs are accepted in CycloneDX and SPDX, and reports export as FDA SBOM, VEX and VDR files. Threat modeling works from AWS, Visio and draw.io architecture diagrams. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Armis and MedCrypt priced and sold?
The AWS Marketplace listing for the Armis Device Security Platform, sold by Armis, shows a "Centrix Standard minimum" of $3,250 per month on 1, 12, 24 or 36 month terms, billed on the assets and devices monitored, managed and unmanaged, including medical equipment, with private offers by email.
For MedCrypt, the pricing page lists a free readiness check ("No login wall, no sales call"), Medcrypt Security Intelligence at $35,000 per product line per year with 15 expert advisory hours and unlimited users, and a custom Enterprise tier with volume pricing across product lines; penetration testing is a scoped add-on. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Armis and MedCrypt handle patient data?
With Armis, an AI assistant data privacy statement is listed in the trust center behind an access request.
In MedCrypt's case, the product handles device manufacturers' software bills of materials, threat models, risk assessments and submission packages, which map a device's known weaknesses; it is not described as handling patient data, and Guardian's device telemetry is not described either. The only privacy document is a website policy dated 18 September 2023, written for visitors to the Medcrypt site. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Armis and MedCrypt cover?
For Armis, the medical device product is sold to hospitals and health systems for biomedical engineering and security teams, covering what the company lists as everything "from check-in kiosks to bedside monitors and surgical equipment", along with clinical assets and the network around them.
With MedCrypt, the platform serves medical device manufacturers: regulatory affairs, quality, product security and engineering teams preparing FDA 510(k), De Novo and PMA submissions, EU MDR and Health Canada filings, and postmarket monitoring for the life of a device. Case studies name device types rather than customers: a cardiac device PMA, surgical robotics, a radiotherapy system, a 3D mapping system and a 100-plus device portfolio. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Healthcare Cybersecurity page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. These are not substitutes, since one is bought by hospitals and the other by manufacturers. Neither claims an FDA clearance. Neither states its own regulatory position. Armis says it identifies every device the moment it connects. It publishes no classification accuracy to test that against. MedCrypt's home page says "100% FDA approval rate, guaranteed" and states no terms for the guarantee. MedCrypt publishes no security attestation, subprocessor list, retention period or position on training with customer data. Armis lists SOC 2, ISO/IEC 42001 and FedRAMP Moderate, with documents on request. Armis starts at $3,250 a month on AWS Marketplace.
Ask MedCrypt what its guarantee commits it to if a submission is refused, and ask Armis what approval an automatic quarantine needs.