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“Segmentation built for security; unbound from your network” |
Founded: 2013 in California, USA
Category: Cybersecurity Primary office: Sunnyvale, CA (USA) Core technical team: Sunnyvale, CA (USA) Status: Private Employees: 289 Amount raised: $333 million (5 rounds – February 2019) |
OVERVIEW
PERFORMANCE METRICS
ACHIEVEMENTS
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Sells
- Adaptive security platform (ASP) – one application to protect the business critical “crown jewel” applications
- subcomponents include virtual enforcement node, policy compute engine
- Features of ASP – illumination, policy generator, explorer, secure connect, vulnerability maps, segmentation templates
Channels
- Partners with “market leaders in hyper-converged and software infrastructure, application performance, security, and management technologies to help enterprises create a new foundation for cybersecurity and operate at speed”
Competencies
- zero-trust framework
- adaptive micro-segmentation
- enforces security policies – “If networking supports how things can communicate, security dictates if they should”
- expands from network segmentation and hypervisors to providing a wide range of segmentation options – user segmentation, coarse-grained segmentation, application segmentation and nano-segmentation
- decoupling zero-trust segmentation from networking
Resources
Assets
- PCE Supercluster technology – scales micro-segmentation technology to cover more than 100,000 workloads
- Policy compute engine – manages segment enforcement – rule management overhead is eliminated for internal data center and cloud security – e.g., one customer reduced 15,000 firewall rules to 40 security policies
- Adaptive security platform
Processes
- See, segment, and stay secure with the illumino software-based adaptive security platform
- Identify all application traffic flows across any workload in any environment in a single view
- Label group workloads thereby simplifying security policy
- Implement policy
- Segmentation strategy – Map application dependencies, orchestrate security policies, identify rogue application behavior, quarantine workloads
- zero-trust framework (replacing perimeter paradigm) – least privilege – “strategically focused on addressing lateral threat movement within the infrastructure by using micro-segmentation and granular enforcement based on user context, data access controls, application security and the device posture”
- Two pronged strategy for micro-segmentation
- legacy applications – focus on service owners, leverage application dependency mapping, bare-metal/VMs
- new applications – engage DevOps, integrate with a portal/marketplace, use clouds and containers
Priorities
- Prevent spread of breaches inside data centers
Assertions That Best Describe What the Company Did to Scale Early, Rapidly & Securely
- Increase value by using a compelling image of the desired future company to convince others to provide the funding and resources the company requires
- Define and implement the plan to scale with the effort, skills, and resilience to increase profitability
- Increase demand of products and services by combining two or more resources in a way that the value created from them exceeds the sum of the value created from each resource separately
- Develop and sell products that address a problem, job to be done or a need that is shared by a large and growing number of individuals and organization in various regions to increase sales
- Increase demand by using scientific and technological advances to develop innovative products and services
- To increase value, attain stakeholders’ trust by improving cybersecurity of the company and the players it works with
- Increase the company’s value by continuously seeking and receiving funding to support the company’s plan to scale and improve its image in the marketplace
References
- Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/illumio#section-website-tech-stack-by-builtwith
- Techcrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/07/illumio-series-e/
- Owler. https://www.owler.com/company/illumio
- SiliconAngle. https://siliconangle.com/2019/02/07/illumio-raises-another-50m-adaptive-segmentation-cybersecurity-approach/
- Illumio website. https://www.illumio.com
Contributors
- Dan Craigen