10 Reasons to Choose Illumio for Zero Trust Segmentation

Many organizations adopting the Zero Trust security strategy are turning to Zero Trust Segmentation to strengthen their security against cyber threats.

Also known as microsegmentation, Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) visualizes the spread of attacks and ransomware across the hybrid attack surface, creating detailed policies that allow only desired and necessary communication while proactively or automatically limiting the spread of leaks during an attack.

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Here are 10 ways Illumio provides an advanced Zero Trust Segmentation experience:

  1. Predictability

Illumio’s agent does not operate in Inline mode; instead, it programs the security firewall of the installed operating system and enforces relevant security policies. Unlike other vendors using non-active solutions that are part of inline traffic and perform firewall processes, such a solution can become unpredictable if the agent fails, leading to sudden application disruptions or, worse, having no security policies at all. Illumio’s offline agents remain in the system even in crisis, ensuring uninterrupted business continuity and security. Its solution for endpoints works both inside and outside the corporate network, eliminating the boundaries for policy creation on endpoints.

  1. End-to-End Application Visibility

Illumio’s end-to-end application dependency maps allow detailed visualization of all workloads in the network. This enhances security and increases the ability to respond quickly to attacks.

  1. Simplicity over Complexity

Illumio’s lightweight architecture, quick start, and flexible tagging system allow organizations to implement segmentation policies quickly and easily. Integrated with many next-generation firewall manufacturers, Illumio enables the quick and easy definition of groups and labels in specific segmentation policies.

  1. Rule Listing without Time Loss and Error Risk

While some micro-segmentation platforms offer multiple types of rules (Allow, Deny, Override, and Reject) to implement micro-segmentation policies, rule sequencing is crucial when applying policies since an incorrectly planned rule sequence can block wrong traffic. Illumio, by default at the Micro Segmentation level, allows you to block all traffic to eliminate any uncertainty about which rules are effective, permitting only authorized traffic to pass through.

  1. Limit Ransomware

Illumio’s Application Boundaries provide the ability to isolate a compromised workload or endpoint immediately and prevent the spread of ransomware. It also quickly and easily blocks commonly used remote desktop protocols (RDP) and file-sharing protocols (like SMB) in the spread of ransomware.

  1. Robust Visualization Maps

Illumio, through its real-time telemetry data, provides visualization maps that enable teams to understand critical paths, detect abnormal behavior, create segmentation policies, and test rules before implementing them.

  1. Quick and Easy Installation

Setting up segmentation policies with Illumio is much easier. The Policy Generator can automatically suggest and create policy recommendations based on real-time traffic, and you can separate teams designing rules from teams implementing them. This prevents writing new rules over rules designed by designers, avoids the application of the wrong rule that can stop critical business traffic, and allows reverting rule changes to a previous version when needed.

  1. Integrations

Illumio supports a wide range of integrations, including Kubernetes, Hashicorp, IBM, Appgate, Qualys, VMware vSphere, Ansible, ArcSight, AWS, Docker, Chef, Okta, RedHat, Microsoft Azure, Puppet, ServiceNow, and Splunk.

  1. Expertise

Recognized by Forrester as a leader in micro segmentation, Illumio works with over 500 organizations worldwide, demonstrating exceptional scalability across various scales and industries.

  1. Scalability

Illumio showcases exceptional scalability in deployments of up to 700,000 workloads in the cloud, on-premises data centers, endpoints, and hybrid environments.

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