Illumio launches AI-powered threat detection platform

Ransomware and breach containment company Illumio has launched Illumio Insights, an AI-powered cloud detection and response platform. The solution has been designed to help security operations centre analysts, incident responders and threat hunters uncover hidden risk by discovering risky, malicious and anomalous network activity. It visualises dangerous traffic and behaviour to enable rapid detection and response.

Using the platform, threats can be dynamically quarantined, with impacted workers completely isolated to reduce the blast radius of a successful breach, according to Illumio. AI observability reduces the mean time to detect and uncovers unseen threats, while the one-click attack containment function reduces the mean time to respond.

Key to the platform’s functionality is Illumio’s AI security graph, which enables Insights to automatically classify traffic and resources and immediately find the risk, according to Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin.

“When an organisation is under attack, understanding the connectivity graph is crucial. Bringing together the Illumio security graph with the AI-driven Illumio Insights analytics pipeline allows organisations, for the first time, to understand how threats and risks are moving through their environment,” he said. “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 Insights will become a key component of the Illumio breach containment platform, accompanying Illumio Segmentation, which contains breaches and enables rapid response.

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