Illumio and Netskope Announce Zero Trust Partnership to Strengthen Enterprise Resilience Against Cyberattacks
Zero
Trust Segmentation combined with Zero Trust Network Access delivers dynamic
protection across modern hybrid IT
Bangalore, India. – May 24,
2024 – Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation
company, and Netskope,
a leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), today announced a Zero Trust
partnership that brings together the power of Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) and
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) to protect against breaches and build cyber
resilience. The new partnership combines Illumio ZTS with Netskope ZTNA Next via the Netskope Cloud Exchange (CE) platform to enable network and
security teams to create Zero Trust policies that consistently secure access at
an organization's perimeter and within its hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure.
In its
recommended Zero Trust Architecture, the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), prescribes three primary Zero Trust enforcement points: identity,
network access, and workload segmentation, with Zero Trust Network Access
implemented at the organization’s boundary, and Zero Trust Segmentation
implemented at the destination workloads. Together, Illumio ZTS and Netskope
ZTNA Next share context to ensure consistent Zero Trust security at the
perimeter and within an organization’s network to reduce the risk from
cyberattacks. Key benefits include:
- Full visibility across hybrid environments: By combining application-to-application and risk-based visibility from Illumio ZTS with the user-to-application-based visibility in Netskope ZTNA Next, organizations gain a consistent, real-time view of user-to-application and application-to-application traffic, enabling them to better understand risk end-to-end.
- Protection for end users from non-compliant workloads: Combined visibility between platforms enables security teams to define Netskope policy to block access between users and potentially compromised workloads, or workloads in segmented environments, increasing resilience across the organization.
- Dynamic ZTNA policy: Netskope’s security policies are automatically updated based on metadata from Illumio, eliminating the need to rewrite rules as workload attributes change, ensuring users and critical applications are always protected and allowing organizations to scale their Zero Trust architecture.
With
ransomware attacks on the rise and IBM
data showing the cost of breaches increasing to $4.45 million,
organizations are turning towards Zero Trust solutions to strengthen
resilience. ZTNA is already widely adopted with Gartner seeing “strong adoption among large
organizations and midmarket organizations.” Adoption of microsegmentation is
also expected to rise rapidly; Gartner predicts that “by 2026, 60 percent of
enterprises working toward Zero Trust architecture will use more than one
deployment form of microsegmentation, up from less than 5% in 2023.”
“Businesses
today are under pressure to ensure that the right people have the right access
to the right online resources, and that requires applying zero trust principles
to every interaction with those resources. Our partnership with Illumio ensures
that the Netskope One platform learns additional, needed context around private
workload posture to help inform and reinforce the security with which private
applications and workloads are accessed,” said David Willis, Vice-President of
Technology Alliances at Netskope.
“Organizations
need their Zero Trust technologies to share context so that they have the same
view of the environment they’re protecting and can update policies
accordingly,” said Mario Espinoza, Chief Product Officer at Illumio. “That’s
exactly what the Illumio and Netskope integration does – Illumio provides
Netskope with the needed context to prevent remote users from accessing
compromised workloads, while also protecting potentially non-compliant internal
workloads from remote access, stopping breaches from spreading. Essentially, we
are making it easier than ever for organizations to implement Zero Trust across
their hybrid environments to strengthen resilience.”
Illumio
and Netskope customers can deploy the plugin today via the Netskope Cloud
Exchange (CE) platform. Find more information at: https://www.illumio.com/partners-tap/netskope
ENDS
Notes to editors
Gartner®, Market Guide for Microsegmentation,
By Adam Hils, Rajpreet
Kaur, Jeremy D'Hoinne, 12 June 2023
Gartner®,
Market Guide for Zero Trust Network Access, By Aaron
McQuaid, Neil MacDonald, John
Watts, Rajpreet Kaur, 14 August 2023
GARTNER
is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its
affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission.
All rights reserved.
About Illumio
Illumio,
the Zero Trust Segmentation Company, stops breaches and ransomware from
spreading across the hybrid attack surface. The Illumio ZTS Platform visualizes
all traffic flows between workloads, devices, and the internet, automatically
sets granular segmentation policies to control communications, and isolates
high-value assets and compromised systems proactively or in response to active
attacks. Illumio protects organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 100 to small
businesses, by stopping breaches and ransomware in minutes, saving millions of
dollars in application downtime, and accelerating cloud and digital
transformation projects.
About Netskope
Netskope,
a global SASE leader, helps organizations apply zero trust principles and AI/ML
innovations to protect data and defend against cyber threats. Fast and easy to
use, the Netskope One platform and its patented Zero Trust Engine provide
optimized access and real-time security for people, devices, and data anywhere
they go. Thousands of customers trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network
to reduce risk and gain unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private
application activity—providing security and accelerating performance without
trade-offs. Learn more at netskope.com.