See What’s New at Illumio: Better Security, Visibility, and Efficiency

Cyber threats are evolving fast. So are the demands on security teams. As environments grow more complex, organizations need smarter, simpler ways to stay protected without slowing down.

At Illumio, we’re continuously innovating to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers and evolving threat landscape.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s new and how they can help you secure your environment more effectively.  

Illumio Insights: reimaging cloud detection and response with AI

At this year’s RSAC, we unveiled Illumio Insights, the first cloud detection and response (CDR) solution built on an AI security graph.  

It’s a core part of the Illumio breach containment platform alongside Illumio Segmentation. The two products work together for comprehensive breach containment.

What does Illumio Insights do?

Insights takes your security visibility and decision-making to the next level. By using AI, Insights decodes traffic flow data to help you see and understand what's happening across your cloud.

Think of it in the way genomics helps us decode DNA but for your cloud data. Insights takes huge amounts of information and turns it into a clear picture of your security posture, so you know where the risks are and can take action to reduce them.

Why Illumio Insights matters now

With Insights, you get deep observability to connect the dots across your environments. Gain in-depth analysis of unusual activity like lateral movement and other risky behaviors. Then, connect the dots between security events and broader infrastructure trends to get the context you need to prioritize, identify, and reduce risks more effectively.  

Insights helps you see high-risk traffic patterns and lateral movement across your hybrid, multi-cloud environments. It analyzes data from every workload and resource across your infrastructure.  

With this information, it gives you a deeper, more informed understanding of security risks. Now, your security team can stay ahead of emerging threats and build robust, consistent security across even the most complex environments.

Top benefits of Illumio Insights

• Quick to deploy at cloud scale: Get started in minutes. No agents needed. See AI-powered insights across millions of workloads. ‍
• Smarter detection and response with AI observability: Uncover threats and attack paths you didn’t know existed. Shorten the mean time to detect (MTTD). ‍
• Contain breaches in one click: Neutralize potential threats with one-click dynamic quarantine. Contain and isolate compromised resources to dramatically reduce the mean time to respond (MTTR).

Agentless container security for the hybrid, multi-cloud

One of the key updates this quarter our new agentless containers security solution. This extends Illumio Segmentation to containerized workloads across a range of cloud and hybrid environments.  

In the past, security agents needed to be installed within each container. But in today’s increasingly large, complex, and ever-changing environment, this approach can become cumbersome and difficult to scale.

With our new agentless solution, it’s far more efficient to secure and monitor your containers environments. We use native Kubernetes features, so you don’t need to install agents inside your containers. By removing this complexity, you can now enforce security policies more easily with reduced overhead — all while maintaining a high level of security.  

Benefits of agentless containers security

Using our agentless approach to container security gives you big advantages, especially in cloud and hybrid environments:

• No agents to manage: You don’t have to install anything inside your containers. This makes setup and updates much easier. ‍
• Works everywhere: It keeps your security consistent across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid systems. ‍
• Grows with your business: As your environment gets bigger, the agentless solution scales easily across every environment with no extra tools or management needed. ‍
• Uses what you already have in the cloud: It connects with the cloud tools you’re already using, like CNI plugins, security groups, NACLs, and cloud firewalls. ‍
• Protects without slowing you down: It’s built to perform well, even in large and fast-changing environments. ‍
• Dynamic security policy enforcement: It updates security policies on its own as your environment changes, so protection stays strong without extra work.

Deeper Microsoft Azure Firewall support

With the Illumio platform, you get centralized, end-to-end visibility into traffic across your network. With this information, you can proactively block high-risk attack pathways and contain breaches — before they turn into cyber disasters.

Now, with Illumio Segmentation’s support of Microsoft Azure Firewall in the cloud, you can:

• Get deeper visibility into your Azure cloud environment
• Better manage and secure your traffic flows, policies, and configurations
• Ensure your firewall settings align with your security policies to add another layer of defense against potential threats

This adds multilayered security to your network while simplifying workloads for a more secure and well-managed network environment. With granular control over traffic at various levels, you can effectively secure your perimeter, resources, and internal segments all at once.

Our expanded support for Azure Firewall also makes it easier for teams across your organization to collaborate on security more efficiently. It bridges the gaps between network, security, and administrative roles.  

Helping you stay ahead of whatever comes next

Today’s security teams are under more pressure than ever — to protect more systems, stop more threats, and do it all with fewer resources. That’s why it’s so important to have tools that reduce the noise, help you make faster decisions, and adapt as your environment grows.

These updates are designed to make your job easier and your defenses stronger. They help you stay ahead of attacks, keep your teams better aligned, and build security that actually works — without slowing you down.  

As we continue to innovate, we’re dedicated to providing you with the tools you need to keep your infrastructure safe and resilient in an increasingly complex cloud landscape.

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