Work Smarter, Not Harder With Illumio’s New AI-Powered Zero Trust Segmentation

Today’s cyber attackers are relentless. And with AI at their disposal, they're launching new exploits faster than ever.  

To stay ahead, organizations must supercharge their cyber resilience. Staying secure means embracing cutting-edge tools and smart solutions.  

Illumio’s new AI-powered Zero Trust Segmentation can help. With the addition of Illumio Virtual Advisor (IVA) and AI labeling, you’re not just keeping up — you’re staying ahead.  

These powerful new features automate complex tasks and deliver actionable insights in the Illumio ZTS Platform. Make your security operations sharper, more responsive, and better prepared for the next potential breach.

Today’s biggest cybersecurity challenge speeding up time to value

Forrester research shows that 47% of Zero Trust projects stall because they lack the right resources. Even highly skilled teams feel overwhelmed when they use traditional security tools to create and manage segmentation controls.

Organizations need a solution that provides real-time information and a smarter way to bridge the gap in resources and skills. This will help ensure they are resilient against cyber threats everywhere.

Teams also face other challenges. Configuration management databases (CMDBs) can be difficult to maintain or might be set up incorrectly, which slows down workflows. Plus, rapidly changing cloud and data center environments make it hard to establish consistent security controls.

Responding to every security incident in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can also be overwhelming, often leading to alert fatigue. Sifting through reams of data from data lake platforms, SIEMs, and other tools can take a lot of time and can quickly become overly complicated. Without visibility across your hybrid multi-cloud, it’s nearly impossible to get quick, actionable insights to proactively secure your network.

These challenges make the cybersecurity skills gap even more critical. Teams are already overworked and find it tough to keep up with advanced threats without extensive experience or resources. This situation leaves organizations open to security breaches and policy failures.

What is the Illumio Virtual Advisor (IVA)?

The Illumio Virtual Advisor (IVA) provides actionable, AI-driven guidance for even the most complex tasks.  

With IVA, teams can streamline their workflows with instant, expert-level answers to their questions. Quickly access critical information and achieve complex tasks simply by asking the virtual advisor.  

With less manual effort required of time-constrained teams, IVA can be a big part of reducing your team’s operational strain.

Whether you need to see all your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) traffic from devices going into the data center or monitor all IT to OT traffic, IVA gives you the information you need with just one question. This powerful feature makes sure your operations are ready to handle new threats.

How does it work?

IVA is powered by OpenAI and hosted on Microsoft Azure to give you accurate and dependable guidance.

When you ask IVA a question, it looks at the context of your query and finds the answer from Illumio's large knowledge base and real-time data. IVA provides links to the original information for each answer so that sources are clear and trustworthy.

IVA also listens to your feedback to keep getting better and more accurate over time. This feedback helps IVA grow with your organization’s needs, making it more helpful with each use.

The IVA has two modes:

• Questions: This mode provides expert-level guidance, with detailed answers and insights to complex security questions.

• Actions: This mode allows IVA to quickly perform tasks that automate routine processes and reduce manual work.  

IVA not only informs but acts, making your security operations more efficient and responsive.

What is Illumio AI labelling?

Illumio’s AI labeling uses machine learning to automatically label workloads based on metadata and flow logs. This automation saves your team the time and effort of doing these tasks manually.

With the confidence that labels are accurate and consistent, your team can focus on more important tasks. This speeds up deployment and makes it easier to manage ever-changing hybrid, multi-cloud environments.

For example, AI labeling can automatically find and correctly label a SQL database. This precise, automated labeling ensures that:

• No important security rules are overlooked

• Security policies are consistently enforced

• There’s less chance of mistakes and vulnerabilities

How does it work?

AI labeling uses machine learning algorithms to analyze metadata and flow logs. It identifies patterns and categorizes workloads accordingly. The system gets better as it learns from new data which improves its accuracy.

Once the workloads are labeled, it’s simple to tell which labels were given by a person or created by AI. This not only lowers the chance of mistakes but also makes sure that security rules evolve as the network changes.

Key benefits of Illumio’s AI-powered ZTS platform

Illumio’s new AI cybersecurity features can help your organization improve its security in today’s challenging threat environment. Use smart technology to make difficult security tasks easier and get the clear, helpful advice you need.

Here are the three benefits you can expect from Illumio’s AI-powered ZTS:

• Contain attacks faster: Get actionable answers and insights that simplify Zero Trust Segmentation and reduce risk – with no technical experience required.  

• Ensure simple, consistent security control: Automate tasks, reduce manual intervention, and minimize errors to easily build hybrid, multi-cloud security policies.  

• Relieve operational strain: Reduce the time it takes for stretched security teams to deploy and manage Zero Trust Segmentation.

Simplify cyber resilience and contain breaches faster with Illumio’s AI-powered ZTS

Read our solution brief and contact us today to learn more about Illumio’s AI-powered Zero Trust Segmentation platform.