Illumio

Illumio is a cybersecurity company specializing in creating solutions that mitigate the spread of digital breaches. It was founded in 2013 and has headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Notable companies that use Illumio for cybersecurity include Salesforce, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The United States Air Force, Morgan Stanley, and the Bank of England.

The Illumio platform is advertised as a zero trust segmentation platform that can be utilized in industries such as aviation, finance, healthcare, and retail. It can also be used in legal and federal contexts. The company states on its website that the platform maintains continuous verification and can stop the spread of ransomware in minutes. Compromised systems are quarantined and security controls can be managed by the user of the platform. Illumio can be used to protect data in various situations, such as during cloud migration projects.

There are specialty versions of the Illumio platform that meet the needs of the environment they are protecting. Below is a description of each platform.

• Illumio Core: Segmentation for on-premises and cloud data center workloads
• Illumio Cloudserve: Agentless segmentation for cloud-native workloads
• Illumio Endpoint: Segmentation for end-user devices

Illumio Core Demo

Illumio has partnered with technology companies in different sectors, including security and infrastructure software and cloud vendors. Below is a table of some of Illumio's partners.

Illumio has been used by companies and organizations to stop the spread of ransomware. The following are some examples:

• A global law firm using it to isolate part of their system that had been infected by ransomware
• An Australian school using it to secure student records and isolate ransomware
• The MGM Macau casino using it for cybersecurity
• A health insurance company using it for PCI compliance and analyzing time and cost savings
• A mortgage financier using it during cloud migration
• A Dutch municipality using it to replace data center firewalls