Illumio launches AI Insights Agent to tackle security alert fatigue

Illumio has announced Insights Agent, an AI-powered extension of its cloud detection and response solution, designed to provide security teams with real-time, tailored threat alerts and role-specific guidance to help address alert fatigue and speed up incident resolution.

Insights Agent operates within Illumio Insights and aims to help security professionals prioritise risk, guide remediation, and initiate containment efforts more efficiently. Illumio positions the new offering as a response to a long-standing pain point within security operations - the overwhelming volume of alerts faced by enterprise teams.

Addressing alert fatigue

Insights Agent delivers threat alerts and recommended actions that are tailored to each user's specific responsibilities, including roles such as threat hunter, incident responder, and compliance analyst.

Using AI, the solution analyses and prioritises potential security threats, making it easier for professionals to focus on the most important issues and improve decision-making time.

According to Illumio, the 2025 Global Cloud Detection and Response Report found that security teams now receive an average of more than 2,000 alerts each day, roughly one every 42 seconds, highlighting the need for more targeted and efficient alert management.

"Security teams are overwhelmed by noise, and we don't need more useless alerts; we need more actionable answers," says Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio.

"Illumio Insights was built to deliver clarity, not clutter. With Agent, we're taking the next step: every user gets a personalised risk view tailored to their role, along with immediate, practical guidance on what to do next. This is real-time discovery and containment, designed for the people who defend our organisations every day."

New features

Insights Agent incorporates several features designed to streamline workflows and increase security efficacy. Users can select their role within the organisation to receive insights and recommendations matched to their duties.

The AI engine provides investigative analysis of workloads and policies, recommending actions ranked by threat severity. Continuous monitoring of network flows and workloads is used to spot anomalies, while an AI-guided response plan helps users with step-by-step remediation, including automated handoffs across different components of the security stack.

Another notable feature is the integration with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which allows threats detected by Insights Agent to be mapped to specific adversarial techniques and tactics.

This helps organisations better understand how attackers operate and align their response efforts according to industry-standard frameworks.

For containment, Insights Agent is designed to integrate with Illumio Segmentation, enabling one-click isolation of compromised workloads without the need to deploy agents on end hosts.

Technical foundation

Insights Agent leverages the underlying architecture of Illumio Insights, which uses an AI security graph to ingest and analyse large volumes of network data, providing real-time visibility of risks and network activity. This technical approach allows for the advanced automation and precision in detection and response associated with Insights Agent.

Availability and deployment

Insights Agent is currently available in public preview for both existing Insights users and Microsoft customers, via the Microsoft Security Store. General availability is expected in December.

Illumio has also announced that Insights and Illumio Segmentation are deployed across Microsoft's corporate IT environment, a move that is intended to strengthen cyber resilience and breach prevention capabilities at scale for the technology company.