How we are different

• Illumio’s technology solves one of the largest lingering security problems plaguing companies: how to prevent hackers from moving freely and stealing sensitive data inside data centers once they make it past the perimeter. The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is the only solution to prevent unauthorized communications to these critical applications by creating segments that adapt to changes in the data center to stop hackers from moving between systems. Illumio does this with proprietary live application dependency mapping and adaptive micro-segmentation technology.

• Illumio is the easiest and most comprehensive way for organizations to understand and combat the risk of threats spreading across applications in the data center and the public cloud. The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform visualizes application traffic and delivers continuous, scalable, and dynamic policy and control to every bare-metal server, virtual machine (VM), containerized host, and VDI within and across data centers and clouds. Since launching in 2013, the company has taken a unique, approach to cybersecurity: “We just kept coming back to the idea that it shouldn’t be so hard to proactively stop threats inside data centers and as technologists we had the opportunity to solve it – so we did,” said PJ Kirner, co-founder and chief technology officer of Illumio.

• Illumio is powered by a central brain called the Policy Compute Engine (PCE), which activates and manages enforcement capabilities in assets that already exist in your data center and cloud without adding additional hardware or software chokepoints that impact performance and increase complexity. The result is the ability to secure high-value assets from hackers quickly, while reducing the complexity and cost of traditional infrastructure security approaches.