Industry-first common solution for zero trust network access and zero trust segmentation to mitigate risk in hybrid infrastructures. With the new solution, Appgate and Illumio want to prevent and stop the spread of security breaches.
Appgate, the Zero Trust secure access company, and Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust segmentation company, today announced the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and Zero Trust segmentation solution (ZTS) on. This protects network connectivity and prevents the propagation of breaches across hybrid infrastructure and applications to make organizations more resilient to cyberattacks.
ZTNA solution combined with ZTS solution
The new solution integrates Appgate SDP, a leading ZTNA solution, with Illumio Core, a leading ZTS solution. This enables organizations to create Zero Trust Access Policies that adapt in real-time to changes in the application environment. If a framework parameter of a workload segmented with Illumio changes, Appgate SDP automatically recognizes this and makes the necessary adjustments automatically. In this way, user access is updated quickly and transparently to the right level without restricting a user. As a result, security teams do not have to write new security policies when IP addresses change, ultimately saving time and resources.
The ZTNA and ZTS cooperation offers the following advantages
- Automated policy updates that save time and enable businesses to scale. Using metadata from Illumio, Appgate SDP automatically adjusts user permissions to allow access only to policy-authorized workloads.
- Granular controls that prevent the propagation of security breaches. The solution ensures that access between users and specific application workloads occurs with the minimum privileges, across any combination of hybrid infrastructures, on-premises, in the data center or in the cloud.
- Comprehensive Zero Trust security to make organizations more resilient to cyberattacks. ZTNA blocks attackers from accessing specific areas of the network, while ZTS blocks attackers from traversing the entire network—providing end-to-end Zero Trust controls and reducing risk.
"By working with Illumio, we can quickly bring to market a unique best-of-breed joint solution that leverages the collective strength of our proven Zero Trust security platforms," said Tony Zirnoon, CISSP, Head of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships , Appgate. “The merger of Appgate SDP's North-South policies and Illumio Core's East-West policies creates a unified set of identity-aware, contextual access policies to accelerate the advancement of Zero Trust and seamlessly secure hybrid enterprise architectures.”
Connected companies are more vulnerable
In the hybrid world of work, organizations are more connected and vulnerable to attacks — 76 percent of organizations have experienced a ransomware attack in the past two years. The industry now assumes that security breaches are inevitable. Therefore, it develops policies that proactively contain cyber attacks and thus minimize their impact (ie Zero Trust). ZTNA and ZTS are two essential pillars of any Zero Trust strategy and are now available as a joint solution for the first time.
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About Illumio
Illumio, the leader in zero-trust segmentation, stops attacks and ransomware from propagating through the hybrid attack surface. The Illumio ZTS platform visualizes all traffic between workloads, devices, and the web, automatically sets granular segmentation policies to control data flow, and isolates high-value assets and vulnerable systems proactively or in response to active attacks.