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| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Illumio Segmentation | 21.9% |
| NetFoundry Platform | 0.3% |
| Other | 77.8% |

| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 2 |
| Large Enterprise | 14 |
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments, stopping attacks from becoming cyber 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.
The Illumio Platform comprises two complementary products powered by an AI security graph:
Together, they help security teams shrink the attack surface, reduce risk, and contain breaches in real time.
Illumio Segmentation
Illumio enhances security through micro-segmentation and real-time traffic control, offering detailed network visibility and precise application communication management. It supports scalability across environments, improving security posture and reducing lateral movement.
Illumio's features include real-time traffic control, micro-segmentation at the workload level, and scalable policy management, allowing organizations to establish strict security measures against threats like ransomware. Its visibility map offers granular security insights essential for creating effective policies and auditing traffic. Centralized rule distribution and comprehensive traffic mapping augment security across environments. The platform's design ensures ease of deployment and compatibility, reducing unauthorized access by focusing on threat isolation and breach containment. While Illumio excels in flexibility and visibility, it also includes advancements in technical support, third-party integrations, and user-friendly policy management in order to better support diverse operating systems and larger environments. Improved reporting, analytics, and automation for policy creation are necessary alongside reduced dependency on agents and enhanced data security measures.
What are Illumio's most important features?
What benefits or ROI should users look for?
Illumio is frequently deployed in industries where network segmentation is critical, such as finance and healthcare, offering detailed network visibility and control over application communication. Organizations integrate it seamlessly with existing infrastructures, facilitating the deployment of lightweight VENs and effective policy management to secure hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring compliance and defending against evolving threats.
NetFoundry is the leader in Zero Trust Workload Connectivity, trusted to securely connect enterprise’s most critical workloads, within and across any environment.
As the only identity-first fabric for every AI, API, site, container, and machine interaction, NetFoundry customers deploy their workloads with greater speed, security and scalability.
Its Identity-First Reachability™ eliminates the reachable attack surface that attackers exploit and defenders struggle to secure, by removing open inbound ports, VPNs and firewall rule changes. By design, it enables security to adapt to the environment, not force the environment to adapt to security, so teams can secure one workload at a time without the high cost of firewall management or redesigning the network.
Customers use NetFoundry to:
Founded by the inventors and maintainers of OpenZiti, the world’s most widely used open source Zero Trust platform, NetFoundry secures billions of sessions for critical infrastructure on three continents and supports Fortune 10 companies across regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, and energy.
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