Zero-trust segmentation company Illumio and secure access service edge business Netskope have announced a zero-trust partnership that combines zero-trust segmentation (ZTS) and zero-trust network access (ZTNA) to protect against breaches and build cyber resilience.
The new partnership integrates Illumio ZTS with Netskope ZTNA Next via the Netskope cloud exchange platform, allowing network and security teams to create zero-trust policies that consistently secure access at an organisation’s perimeter and within its hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructure.
Key benefits include:
- Full visibility across hybrid environments: By combining application-to-application and risk-based visibility from Illumio ZTS with the user-to-application-based visibility in Netskope ZTNA Next, organisations gain a consistent, real-time view of user-to-application and application-to-application traffic, enabling them to better understand risk end-to-end.
- Protection for end users from non-compliant workloads: Combined visibility between platforms enables security teams to define Netskope policy to block access between users and potentially compromised workloads or workloads in segmented environments, increasing resilience across the organisation.
- Dynamic ZTNA policy: Netskope’s security policies are automatically updated based on metadata from Illumio, eliminating the need to rewrite rules as workload attributes change, ensuring users and critical applications are always protected and allowing organisations to scale their zero-trust architecture.
“Businesses today are under pressure to ensure that the right people have the right access to the right online resources, and that requires applying zero trust principles to every interaction with those resources,” said Netskope’s David Willis. “Our partnership with Illumio ensures that the Netskope One platform learns additional, needed context around private workload posture to help inform and reinforce the security with which private applications and workloads are accessed.”
“Organisations need their zero-trust technologies to share context so that they have the same view of the environment they’re protecting and can update policies accordingly,” said Illumio’s Mario Espinoza. “That’s exactly what the Illumio and Netskope integration does. Illumio provides Netskope with the needed context to prevent remote users from accessing compromised workloads, while also protecting potentially non-compliant internal workloads from remote access, stopping breaches from spreading. Essentially, we are making it easier than ever for organisations to implement zero-trust across their hybrid environments to strengthen resilience.”
Illumio and Netskope customers can now deploy the plugin via the Netskope cloud exchange platform.
