Illumio Strengthens Google Cloud Platform Support to Contain Risk Across Distributed Environments

Distributed. Hybrid. Multi-cloud. Whatever you call it, it’s clear that the way we build and run infrastructure today is anything but simple.

Organizations are moving fast. They’re spinning up workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to stay agile and scale on demand.  

With speed and flexibility comes one huge tradeoff: complexity. And where there’s complexity, there’s risk.

That’s why Illumio is increasing its support for Google Cloud, giving security teams the visibility, consistency, and control they need to secure sprawling cloud environments without slowing innovation down.

This blog post explains why that matters and what Illumio’s expanded GCP support unlocks for your team.

The distributed security dilemma

The multi-cloud offers organizations more flexibility, better pricing options, and fewer vendor lock-ins.  

But the moment your apps and data live across different providers, your security model takes a hit. Security postures become harder to deliver and organizations are left vulnerable to the creation of visibility blind spots.  

Every cloud speaks a different language

Each cloud provider — whether AWS, Azure, or GCP — comes with its own native tooling, architectures, and security frameworks. That means your security team is constantly translating, adapting, and troubleshooting just to maintain the basics.  

This makes security consistency across these distributed environments near impossible.  

Trying to apply uniform segmentation policies across clouds becomes a nightmare. Manual policy creation is slow, error-prone, and impossible to scale.  

What’s worse is that inconsistencies produced by manual processes leave behind gaps that attackers love to exploit.

Limited visibility, bigger risk

Here’s the other problem: you can’t protect what you can’t see. Without a centralized view of how applications and workloads communicate across environments, threats move silently and laterally — often undetected until it’s too late.

Security teams are left flying blind, relying on logs and best guesses to chase down misconfigurations and suspicious traffic. It’s not just inefficient. It’s dangerous.

Why securing multi-cloud requires a unified approach

To truly protect distributed environments, security teams must be able to achieve consistency.  

That means centralized policy management, real-time visibility, and the ability to enforce segmentation, regardless of the cloud provider.

Illumio's approach was built for exactly this challenge. And with expanded support for the Google Cloud Platform, it’s easier than ever to bring clarity and control to complex cloud ecosystems.

What Illumio’s expanded GCP support delivers

What does deeper Google Cloud support actually mean for you? These are the top benefits of Illumio’s increased support, all designed to help you contain risk and move fast without disrupting the business.

A single view across the multi-cloud

Say goodbye to juggling multiple tools and dashboards across your hybrid cloud.  

Illumio now gives you one consistent platform to manage segmentation policies and visibility across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

That means simplified operations, faster decision-making, and fewer gaps for attackers to exploit.

An agentless integration for faster time to value

Don’t want to install agents across your Google Cloud environment? No problem.

Illumio’s GCP support is agentless, so you can expand visibility and enforcement without disrupting your cloud operations.  

It’s easy to adopt, simple to scale, and quick to deploy with no heavy lift required.

AI-powered observability into GCP with Illumio Insights  

With Illumio Insights now extended to GCP, your team gets real-time intelligence into risks and blind spots.  

That means you can identify and understand risk, contain threats in one click, and proactively stop lateral movement across GCP.

Secure your distributed cloud environments with Illumio

The future of infrastructure is distributed, and there’s no going back. But the complexity this brings doesn’t have to mean chaos.

With our expanded support for Google Cloud, Illumio is making it easier than ever to contain breaches across your entire multi-cloud ecosystem.  

Security teams can move from reactive to proactive with the confidence that they’re reducing risk without slowing down the business.

Start your Illumio Insights free trial to get AI-powered observability into your distributed cloud environments.