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Illumio Collaborates with Kyndryl to Contain Breaches and Drive Zero Trust Adoption

AI-driven threat containment, combined with expert-led services, helps organizations respond swiftly to breaches, reduce risk, and meet compliance goals

Sunnyvale, CA—November 12, 2025—Illumio, Inc., the breach containment company, today announced a collaboration with Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, to help organizations reduce cyber risk, strengthen resilience, and speed Zero Trust adoption. By combining Illumio AI-powered breach containment with Kyndryl Microsegmentation Implementation Services, the collaboration delivers a scalable solution for Zero Trust—one that helps reduce the spread of cyberattacks, minimizes business disruption, and improves resilience.

Illumio Insights, a core component of the Illumio Platform, sets a new standard in cloud security. Powered by an AI security graph, Insights ingests and analyzes cloud-scale network data, delivering real-time visibility into traffic and risks. With this technology, Kyndryl can support the deployment of proactive microsegmentation and provide comprehensive managed services to customers, helping to deliver smarter, faster breach containment in environments at scale.

By turning massive volumes of telemetry into clear, actionable intelligence, Illumio Insights helps customers reduce dwell time, limit blast radius, and improve compliance with confidence. Combined with Illumio Segmentation, organizations can isolate workloads and applications to contain breaches more effectively. By integrating these capabilities into its broader cyber resilience and managed services portfolio, Kyndryl helps customers implement Zero Trust architectures and accelerate segmentation strategies that improve operational resilience.

Kyndryl’s global teams are certified to deploy and manage Illumio solutions, supporting efficient integration and ongoing support. Through this collaboration, Kyndryl can help customers scale breach containment efforts with confidence and agility.

Customer benefits include:

• Rapid implementation of Zero Trust architectures
• Push-button deployment of Illumio Insights, helping Kyndryl to deliver AI-driven threat detection across millions of workloads in minutes
• Proactive segmentation of networks and workloads to contain potential breaches
• Reduced attack surfaces to support compliance and risk management
• Expertise to scale and operationalize Zero Trust strategies across complex, hybrid IT environments
• A fully managed and scalable microsegmentation implementation and managed service from Kyndryl, providing end-to-end coverage and global support

“This collaboration is a model for how Zero Trust should be delivered—globally and with measurable impact,” said Todd Palmer, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Alliances, Illumio. “Together with Kyndryl’s expertise, we’re embedding breach containment into the fabric of enterprise security, enabling organizations to stay resilient and compliant in the face of evolving threats.”

To learn more, customers can schedule a consultation with Kyndryl Consult experts through the Kyndryl Bridge Marketplace. For information on Illumio breach containment offerings, visit Illumio. Interested in experiencing Illumio Insights firsthand? Register here to try it for free.

About Illumio  
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by an AI security graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Illumio Contact: [email protected]

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