Illumio and Wiz Combine Forces to Close the Cloud Security Gap

Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation company, is announcing its partnership with Wiz, a leading cloud security provider, enhancing the Wiz Integration (WIN) Platform—the platform that enables bi-directional sharing of security findings across the cloud security ecosystem to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable an open cloud security ecosystem, according to Wiz. This newfound partnership and integration recognizes the gaps in cloud security and aims to increase the visibility and reaction times associated with cloud breaches, further increasing overall security efficiency. 

The safety of the cloud is more important than ever, as any mild negligence can produce a hefty price tag for organizations in every industry. As identified by Illumio’s 2023 Cloud Security Index, approximately half of all data beaches originate in the cloud, incurring a staggering cost of $4.1 million, on average. 

Propelled by the daunting realities of modern cloud security, Illumio joins Wiz’s partner ecosystem to enable customers to seamlessly integrate Wiz into their existing Illumio workflows. Merging Illumio’s Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) platform—a scalable, easy-to-use breach containment platform—with WIN, customers benefit from the two platforms sharing prioritized security findings, including context including inventory, vulnerabilities, issues, and configuration findings. 

"When it comes to cloud security, leaders need to quickly contain attacks in a fast-changing environment where attackers are trying every trick in the book to gain access and 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 organizations can proactively streamline vulnerability management and breach containment in the cloud, significantly improving cyber resilience." 

"The combined capabilities of Wiz and Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform offer organizations 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 and partnerships at Wiz. “This integration underscores Wiz's commitment to delivering innovative solutions that safeguard digital assets and protect against emerging cyber threats."

This partnership innovates in three key areas: enhanced visibility, improved vulnerability management, and faster breach containment. 

With enhanced visibility, enterprises benefit from greater transparency in cloud environments paired with robust detection capabilities. This empowers security teams with the crucial, deep insights necessary to execute proactive segmentation controls, according to the companies. 

Improved vulnerability management manifests through detecting misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, as well as in the incorporation of application deployment and traffic flow telemetry between workloads.

Finally, through the ability to enforce granular access controls based on real-time threat intelligence, this partnership introduces faster breach containment to ultimately reduce the attack surface and automatically contain potential breaches.  

“Cloud security teams are moving beyond playing catch-up to security alerts common to most cloud environments, to a new reality where they recognize 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, organizations can proactively manage their cloud security postures, while leveraging the principles of zero trust segmentation to effectively mitigate risk.”