Illumio unveils AI security graph for cloud threat response

Illumio has released Illumio Insights, a cloud detection and response solution that leverages an AI security graph to identify and respond to cyber threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Illumio Insights is designed to provide observability into organisational traffic, flows, and connections, surfacing risk throughout connected IT landscapes. The solution enables security analysts, incident responders, and threat hunters to uncover hidden risks by observing all flows and connections and identifying risky, malicious, or anomalous activity. It also visualises dangerous traffic and behaviour, helping to prioritise risks related to lateral movement between environments and enabling rapid detection and response actions.

The solution supports dynamic threat quarantine, allowing impacted workloads to be completely isolated in real-time. Illumio states that this feature reduces the potential impact of breaches by limiting the blast radius and increasing resilience within organisations' cloud infrastructure.

Key features of Illumio Insights include rapid, agentless deployment that can deliver AI-powered insights across millions of workloads in minutes, enhanced threat detection through AI observability to reduce the average time to detect threats, and the ability to immediately neutralise risks with one-click containment, thereby reducing the mean time to respond.

Andrew Rubin, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Illumio, said, "When an organization is under attack, understanding the connectivity graph is crucial. Bringing together the Illumio security graph with the AI-driven Illumio Insights analytics pipeline allows organizations, for the first time, to understand how threats and risks are moving through their environment. This is the power of an AI security graph. Illumio Insights is vital for protecting the environment as it offers unparalleled observability to understand threat and malicious activity in the cloud. Illumio Insights connects the dots and finds every needle in every haystack. When integrated with Illumio Segmentation, breaches are contained and cyber disasters avoided."

Illumio's AI security graph enables the ingestion of network flow and resource data at cloud scale, automatically classifies traffic and resources, and identifies risk in real-time. This approach provides security teams with a comprehensive view of attacker movement across the environment, supporting faster and better-informed response decisions.

Commenting on the growing complexity of the cybersecurity landscape, Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security and Trust at IDC, said, "As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, it's no longer about having more technology — it's about having smarter, more adaptive solutions. The need for intelligent systems has never been greater, and AI is at the heart of this transformation. AI-powered security graphs are a game-changer, enabling businesses to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks in near real-time. These sophisticated tools streamline security efforts and enhance decision-making by learning from patterns and behaviors, offering a level of insight and protection that traditional offerings simply can't match."

Thomas Vavra, Manager, Network & Security Operations at Mondi Group, commented, "Illumio Insights will give us real-time visibility and control over our risky ports, significantly reducing our risk exposure and improving compliance with industry standards. This will enable us to quickly identify vulnerabilities and address them before they become threats."

Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation are presented as integral parts of the company's breach containment platform, which aims to help organisations identify and detect threats promptly and contain breaches to protect critical assets. According to the company, the combined use of these solutions facilitates risk mitigation, attack containment, and improved overall cyber resilience.