Meet Insights Agent: Your AI Teammate for Threat Detection and Response

If you’ve ever wanted a tireless, hyper-focused teammate who could surface the threats you care about most — and give you the steps to stop them — you’re going to love what we’re launching today.

Meet Illumio Insights Agent, a new AI-powered teammate built into Illumio Insights. It helps security teams detect, investigate, and contain threats faster than ever.

Why now? In today’s hybrid, multi-cloud environments, the volume of alerts is overwhelming.  

Siloed tools drown teams in disconnected data. Analysts waste precious time stitching logs together just to understand what happened — all before they can even think about taking action.  

The real challenge isn’t visibility. It’s clarity. With billions of events firing across complex environments, teams spend precious time digging through haystacks hoping to find the needles that matter.  

Insights Agent changes everything. It’s an always-on AI guide that continuously monitors your environment, aligns its findings to your role, and gives you actionable steps to stop attacks in their tracks.

Let’s break down what it is, how it works, and why it matters.

Why Insights Agent, and why now?

Security teams are stretched thinner than ever. According to The 2025 Global Cloud Detection and Response Report:  

• Teams receive an average of 2,000 alerts each day
• 58% report receiving too many false alerts
• 73% say false positives significantly hinder their focus on real threats

That's a staggering amount of wasted effort. Teams are stuck jumping between tools, trying to make sense of disconnected alerts while the clock ticks down on active breaches.

At the same time, attackers are getting smarter. They’re using stealthier, AI-generated tactics to automate key stages of cyberattacks.  

AI can scan your network faster than any human adversary, pinpointing weak spots and generating payloads on the fly. It can map out your network topology, understand privilege structures, and dynamically pivot across systems — all in real time.  

Once inside, AI can help attackers mimic normal user behavior, evade traditional detection, and quietly chain together small weaknesses to gain broader access.

Static rules and disconnected detection tools just can’t keep up.  

We built Insights Agent to change that.

What is Insights Agent?

Agent brings together AI-driven detection, contextual analysis, and instant breach containment in a single, streamlined experience.

Agent is a persona-aligned, AI-powered assistant that runs continuously in the background of your environment. It acts like a trusted teammate who speaks your language, whether you’re a threat hunter, compliance officer, cloud engineer, or other security roles, and brings the most relevant findings directly to you.

It analyzes real-time workload communications and network flows, mapping suspicious behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. It detects anomalies and then explains what they mean, why they matter, and how to respond.

And because it’s integrated with Illumio segmentation technology, it doesn’t stop at detection. It gives you containment options with one click, helping you stop lateral movement and isolate compromised workloads instantly.

Key features of Insights Agent

From detection to containment, Agent is designed to meet the realities of modern security operations.  

Here are the main features that will help your team move faster and respond smarter.

Persona-based insights

Every role in security has different goals, workflows, and priorities. Agent meets you where you are.

You can choose from a variety of roles, and Agent will tailor its insights to your role’s needs.

A threat hunter might see real-time indicators of data exfiltration tied to known tactics. A compliance user might get alerts on misconfigurations or data access violations. Each gets prioritized, contextual guidance for fast action.

This persona alignment means you’re not digging through noise. Instead, you’re getting exactly what matters most to you, right when you need it.

Real-time threat detection mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework

Agent continuously scans your environment for suspicious behavior. It analyzes workload traffic, cloud ingress/egress, and network flows across hybrid, multi-cloud architectures.

It automatically maps these behaviors to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, giving you confidence that you're seeing threats in the language attackers use.

From lateral movement to data exfiltration, you’ll know what’s happening, how it aligns to known attacker techniques, and how serious it is.

AI-powered investigation and continuous learning

With Agent, each incident gets flagged and explained.  

Agent performs deep-dive analysis into affected resources, workloads, and policies. This gives you clear, prioritized actions based on severity.

And thanks to continuous learning, the more you use it, the smarter it gets.  

Agent adapts to user feedback and evolving threat patterns, surfacing better findings over time and learning what normal looks like in your environment.

Agent delivers true adaptive intelligence instead of traditional static rule sets that require constant tuning.

One-click containment powered by Illumio Segmentation

Unlike most detection and response tools that stop at detection, Agent goes further with real-time containment.

When Agent flags a threat, it can immediately quarantine the compromised workload or flow. Because Agent is built on the Illumio breach containment platform, this action is agentless, network-based, and lightning fast — no host-based deployments or delays required.

It also doesn’t leave teams guessing what to do next. Agent offers step-by-step remediation guidance, including one-click containment actions and integrated ticketing that hands off the issue to the right team for follow-up.

This tight integration with Illumio Segmentation means you can go from alert to action in seconds.

Seamless ticketing and collaboration

With Agent, every detection can be converted into a ticket with one click, streamlining assignment and response. This means no more copying alerts into external systems or chasing down the right person to triage an issue.

Agent turns every finding into a workflow, ensuring fast, consistent remediation and better coordination across teams.

Why Insights Agent is different

Most detection tools today were built for another era — cloud-first, rule-based, and siloed. That model doesn’t hold up anymore.

Agent was designed from the ground up for modern, hybrid, multi-cloud environments.  

Instead of relying on static rules or traditional agent deployments, it uses a network-based, agentless architecture. That means it can detect — and contain — threats in real time across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid workloads.

What makes it even more powerful is how it’s tied directly to the Illumio breach containment platform.  

Other tools stop at the alert. Agent doesn’t. It turns every detection into immediate, one-click action — transforming visibility into resilience.

And because it’s AI-powered and graph-aware, Agent adapts dynamically. It understands what’s normal in your environment and flags what isn’t, even if it’s never been seen before.

Agent offers detection and response built for today’s speed, scale, and complexity.

The threat landscape isn’t slowing down. Neither should you.

Security teams don’t need more alerts. They need clarity, speed, and control, especially when breaches move faster than ever.

We’re at a point where static defenses and slow-moving tools aren’t just outdated but dangerous. AI-driven attacks, lateral movement, and hybrid complexity demand security that’s responsive, intelligent, and integrated with the business.

Insights Agent is built for this urgency. It spots threats others miss, pinpoints where they’re moving, and gives you the power to shut them down instantly.

That’s operational resilience in action.

Ready to meet your AI-powered teammate? Try Illumio Insights free today.