Illumio Collaborates with Microsoft to Strengthen Company’s Cyber Resilience and Prevent Breaches at Scale

Illumio is sharing for the first time publicly that Microsoft Corporation has deployed Illumio Insights and Segmentation across its entire corporate IT environment. This strategic move underscores Microsoft’s commitment to proactive cyber defense, leveraging the Illumio AI-driven platform to prevent lateral movement, contain potential threats, and ensure resilience at unprecedented scale.

Igor Tsyganskiy, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft said, “When we needed to bring these capabilities into Microsoft, Illumio was the only segmentation solution that would work at the scale of Microsoft and deliver in our environment. Perhaps most importantly, the Illumio team understands partnership, and how to deliver under extreme pressure.”

Operating one of the most complex and interconnected networks in the world, Microsoft faces similar challenges as other global enterprises: hybrid environments, multi-cloud architectures, and the need for real-time observability. The Illumio platform provides Microsoft with deep visibility into network connectivity and powerful capabilities to enforce segmentation policies that help reduce the risk of breaches spreading across the environment.  

“When Igor called in April 2024 and asked if we were ready to deploy at Microsoft, I told him that given the size and scale of the environment, unlike anything that any segmentation vendor had ever seen or attempted, we would need to closely partner to do it,” said Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder at Illumio. “I assured him that every team member at Illumio would do anything and everything possible to ensure success. From the beginning, we have believed in the power and scalability of the AI network security graph, and with the deployment at Microsoft, we can now definitely say it is the future of cybersecurity.”

The Illumio platform, containing the Illumio Insights and Segmentation products, is powered by the network graph, allowing an organization to have a deep understanding of connectivity within even the most hybrid and complex network environments. Using AI for analysis of the graph, Illumio Insights finds anomalies and threats in real time, surfacing everything from LLM traffic to malicious IP connectivity. Illumio Segmentation allows the organization to quickly and easily set policy for anything from dynamic quarantine to Zero Trust microsegmentation, ensuring breaches and ransomware do not spread widely through the environment and dramatically increasing resiliency in the event of an attack.

Learn more about our partnership with Microsoft, and try Illumio Insights free today.