Illumio expands Partner Program

A comprehensive curriculum and complimentary hands-on training will make it easier to sell, implement and operate Illumio solutions. A new pricing program, price protection and a no-cost services enablement program reassure partners that they are investing in a winning opportunity with Illumio.

Despite organizations’ best efforts to prevent breaches, threat actors continue to get in and cause significant damage and destruction. Microsegmentation is a critical component of Zero Trust and essential for preventing breaches and ransomware from escalating into catastrophic disasters. While many organizations realize the critical role microsegmentation plays in breach containment and cyber resilience, most don’t know where to start. Illumio is arming partners to step in and fill this critical gap for their customers.

“The value of microsegmentation is indisputable. Organizations understand the necessity and want to proceed, but the perceived complexity often stands in the way. This creates an enormous opportunity for our partners,” says Todd Palmer, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Alliances. “To empower our partners, we’ve evolved our partner program to ensure they have all the necessary resources and support to guide their customers forward with microsegmentation as part of their Zero Trust journey.”

“Microsegmentation is something the industry would have liked to have solved a long time ago. The inevitability of an attack makes limiting the blast radius paramount. But there are reasons why lateral movement has been allowed to go unchecked, not the least of which is a level of confusion in the market as to how to do this simply,” said Chris Nicholson, Area Vice President, Global Security Sales & Advisory, World Wide Technology. “Illumio has leveraged its expertise in Zero Trust Segmentation to thoughtfully evolve its program, providing WWT with resources to guide our clients through their Zero Trust journey.”

Described as “the original microsegmentation specialist” and a market leader by Forrester, Illumio was purpose-built to prevent attackers from moving laterally once they breach an organization.

 "Every eleven seconds, an attempted cyber breach occurs, underscoring the urgency and scale of today’s cyberthreats," explained Sean Remnant, Chief Strategy Officer at Ignition Technology. "That’s why zero trust microsegmentation is essential in combatting these sophisticated attacks. Illumio, as a pioneer in this space, is trusted globally by leading organizations. We’re excited to support the new ‘Enlighten’ programme to equip our channel partners for future success."

He continued, "Conversations with customers reveal that Zero Trust microsegmentation is vital to a robust cybersecurity strategy. With attackers constantly refining techniques, it’s crucial to assume a breach has either occurred or is imminent. Limiting the blast radius of potential breaches and ensuring in-depth visibility into network traffic is critical. Illumio offers both security and insight, enabling us to proactively prevent unintended connections, whether among endpoints, data centres, or cloud environments."

The Illumio ZTS platform prevents breaches from spreading across clouds, endpoints, and data centers. By combining a proprietary graph that continually visualizes connectivity throughout the environment with AI-driven insights that discover and highlight anomalies and malicious connections, Illumio delivers immediate risk reduction. By creating granular policies that only allow necessary connections to occur, Illumio’s microsegmentation capabilities automatically isolate breaches by reducing and restricting lateral movement either proactively or in response to an attack.