Illumio and Wiz join forces to reduce cloud risk and automate and enhance vulnerability management in the cloud

Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation company, announces its partnership with pioneering cloud security provider Wiz and joins Wiz Integrations (WIN) Platform.

Illumio enhances WIN by bringing the power of Illumio’s Zero Trust Segmentation platform to the partner ecosystem, so that customers can seamlessly integrate Wiz into their existing Illumio workflows.

Benefits of security findings

WIN enables Wiz and Illumio to share prioritised security findings with context including inventory, vulnerabilities, issues, and configuration findings. Customers receive the following benefits:  

• Enhanced visibility: Organisations benefit from enhanced visibility into cloud environments and robust threat detection capabilities, providing security teams with deeper insights to then apply proactive segmentation controls.
• Improved vulnerability management: The integration improves vulnerability management by not only detecting misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, but also adding application deployment, and traffic flow telemetry data between workloads.  
• Faster breach containment: The ability to implement granular access controls based on real-time threat intelligence minimises the attack surface and automatically contains potential breaches.

Gaps in cloud security

Combined value of these two offerings will help clients build best-of-breed cloud security programs

Organisations increasingly rely on the cloud to run their critical systems and store their most valuable data, and as a result, cloud attacks are becoming more sophisticated and pervasive. According to Illumio’s Cloud Security Index, nearly half of all data breaches now originate in the cloud, costing organisations $4.1 million on average. The gaps in cloud security are recognised by security decision-makers with 95% saying they need better visibility and reaction times to cloud breaches, as well as increased efficiency in security operations.

The combined value of these two offerings will help customers build best-of-breed cloud security programs, regardless of where they may be on their cloud journey.

Principles of zero trust segmentation

“Cloud security teams are moving beyond playing catch-up to security alerts common to most cloud environments, to a new reality where they recognise that breaches will occur, so they must identify cloud misconfigurations, software vulnerabilities, and active threats. Additionally, they must be able to proactively apply segmentation controls to contain attacks,” said Philip Bues, Research Manager for Cloud Security at IDC.

“By integrating threat detection and microsegmentation strategies, organisations can proactively manage their cloud security postures, while leveraging the principles of zero trust segmentation to effectively mitigate risk.”

Illumio and Wiz platforms

"When it comes to cloud security, pioneers need to quickly contain attacks in a fast-changing environment where attackers are trying every trick in the book to gain access and to move around,” said Todd Palmer, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Alliances at Illumio.

“The integration between the Illumio and Wiz platforms means organisations can proactively streamline vulnerability management and breach containment in the cloud, significantly improving cyber resilience."

Wiz's commitment

"The combined capabilities of Wiz and Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform offer organisations a comprehensive approach to cloud security, encompassing threat detection, vulnerability management, and segmentation for public cloud applications and workloads,” said Oron Noah, Head of Product Extensibility & Partnerships, Wiz. “This integration underscores Wiz's commitment to delivering innovative solutions that safeguard digital assets and protect against emerging cyber threats."  

WIN is designed to enable a cloud security operating model where security and cloud teams work collaboratively to understand and control risks across their CI/CD pipeline. Wiz is setting the industry standard in integrated solution strategy to maximise operational capabilities of organisations with partners like Illumio in WIN.