Attending RSAC 2018? I’m making plans to attend and have been thinking a lot about what past experiences have been the most impactful, from peer networking to the emergence of new technology each year. The conference has come a long way since including headshots on your passes and hosting in San Jose. Following a two-year RSAC hiatus and now in a new role as Head of Security at Illumio and Board Member of the Austin Chapter Cloud Security Alliance, I’m raring to return and sharing some of my thoughts on how make the most of your days at the show.

This time around, Darren and I dig into what we like to call: LADGMFAUS – A.K.A. Leveraging Active Directory Group Membership for Adaptive User Segmentation.  

Illumio adaptive micro-segmentation technology is quickly becoming a foundational part of the security stack and an essential tool to protect applications running in data center and cloud environments. As we see customers roll out the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) to protect more parts of their application environments, we also see them extend Illumio to more teams across their organization — like the Security Operations Center (SOC) teams who rely on tools like security information and event management (SIEM) to monitor environments for alerts and anomalies.

Illumio's integration with Splunk gives SOC teams the ability to quickly identify potentially compromised workloads and enables Illumio administrators to be able to monitor the health of the Illumio solution.

Segmentation Templates: what are they, what do they do, and why would I use them instead of the wizards Microsoft provides?

In this episode, Darren tells the story about why he built the templates and how he added capabilities to optimize what he experienced during his time as a Windows admin. All this to help customers get micro-segmentation up and running quicker to secure Active Directory and other Microsoft core services.