Name: Zero Trust Segmentation Platform
Rating: 4.7 (195 reviews)

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Updated 14th October 2025

What is Zero Trust Segmentation Platform?

Illumio specializes in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure utilizing microsegmentation, systems, and organizations.

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IT Associate

3B - 10B USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“Illumio ZTS Made Easy”

4.0

Apr 20, 2026

I have worked with Illumio for a little over two years now. My experience with their support and sales team has been very good. Their support staff has always seemed to have a good depth of knowledge and provided thorough answers to my questions and typically quick resolution to any problem I have had.

Head Of Cyber And Identity

500M - 1B USD, Insurance (except health)

CRITICAL

“Great concept, hard to get there.”

3.0

Sep 18, 2023

It is a great concept and vision, but very hard to hand over to developers in practice, administration is equivalent to AWS Security Groups. Has a good use case for on-prem network segregation, and low value add for cloud deployments compared to native cloud features.

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For Market:
Network Security Microsegmentation

About Company

Company Description

Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company, stops breaches and ransomware from spreading across the hybrid attack surface. The Illumio ZTS Platform visualizes all traffic flows between workloads, devices and the internet, automatically sets granular segmentation policies to control communications, and isolates high-value assets and compromised systems proactively or in response to active attacks. Illumio protects organizations of all sizes, from Fortune 100 to small business, by stopping breaches and ransomware in minutes, saving millions of dollars in application downtime, and accelerating cloud and digital transformation projects.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2013

Head office location

Sunnyvale, United States

Website

https://illumio.com

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My favorite feature of the product is the Traffic explorer allowing me to easily see all inbound and outbound traffic, the processes, services, or users initiating the traffic. Also, the ability to write policy and then view how it will impact traffic in draft mode before publishing the updated policy. There are some limitations to this feature related to outbound process-based rules to an IP list, but other than that it works great.

Visualisation of traffic flows is outstanding

I like the ability to visualize the segmentation of our workloads and to preview the effects of segmentation changes we plan on implementing. The System is intuitive and give us a great deal of control over our segmentation plan, down to the processes that run on each workload.

My biggest gripe with this solution is that label changes are instantaneous. If you change a label on a workload, you could inadvertently end up blocking required traffic. Making label changes a publishing event is something that has been asked for by myself and other customers I have talked to. So far, there seems to be no movement on adding this feature. Not having this feature can make label changes a very tedious task because you need to make sure to update policy everywhere that workload has access. For example, when we started out, we overused some role labels like R-APP, which is preventing us from getting some policies as granular as we would like. This could all be solved if a label change was publishable so you could change the label and then review traffic in draft mode to see where you need to update policy based on the new label prior to publishing the change.

Cost and complexity

Most changes in the Segmentation System are provisionable, which allows you to preview the effects of the proposed changes. A critical exception to this is label changes, with labels being the building blocks to the segmentation rules. Label changes are instantaneous and can leave you feeling a little blind to the cascading effects that may result. An additional shortcoming of the system concerns rule provisioning. Generally, you have a good idea of the scope of a rule being implemented, but there are times when the rule affects more workloads than anticipated, and there isn't a current way to list all of the workloads affected by a provisioned rule. One last shortcoming of the system concerns previewing the effects of rules constrained by outbound windows processes. Locking traffic down to an outbound process adds a level of security to traffic that requires a large port range, but we are currently unable to preview the effects of such a rule if the destination of the traffic is not managed by Illumio such as an IP Range. These shortcomings are in no way showstoppers, but they do take some of the visibility out of the system, which visibility for me is one of the strengths of Illumio's platform.

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Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation

1B-10B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

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Illumio ZTS Made Easy

Illumio ZTS Segmentation Visualization and Management

Our Illumio support team is very responsive and engaged in our success with their product. They work hard to deliver updates and enhancements as needed and provide assistance with any issues we encounter.

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE

50M-1B USD

IT Services

Zero Trust Segmentation Reduces Lateral Movement With Real Time AI Analysis

5.0

Oct 28, 2025

Zero Trust segmentation covering everything from architecture-level strategy solutions with effectively reduce lateral movement and minimize attack surface with granular policy control, real time visibility, and compliance integration. Its strenthened overall network defenses with strong delivery, a resilient and adaptive security posture with strong automation and integration with incident response, and accelerated threat containment. Real time visibilty tools.automation with incident response for rapid threat containment. Advanced tools including AI & ML for real time traffic analysis to adapt instantly to emerging threats for proactive response. Predict potential lateral movement and recommend microsegmentation overall delivery of scalability, resilience, and security framework that evolves with the threat landscape. AI-driven automation stramlines policy enforcement across hybrid and multi cloud environment, reducing manual overhead and improving response times. Integration of ML and AI into ZTNS results in a smarter, faster and more resilient security posture that evolves with the threat landscape. Smart Assest discovery and its classification and its seamless integration with user-centric security experience.

Gov't/PS/Ed

Government

Extensive Review Finds Illumio Core/ZTS Effective for Large-Scale Segmentation Needs

Apr 14, 2026

Our organization went through a comprehensive review of over 20 zero trust segmentation platforms and we then selected the top three vendors for a proof of value/concept using real servers and application environments in our data centers. Illumio Core/ZTS unquestionably stood out above all of the others. From a technical perspective and from a company culture point of view the product and the company presented as mature and stable. All technical staff and sales staff were very knowledgeable, helpful and clearly had significant depth of industry experience.

Challenging Learning Curve but with a satisfying end result.

We experienced a very hands-on approach during the initial installation and setup phases. After that the after sales has been excellent

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“Illumio ZTS Made Easy”

“Great concept, hard to get there.”

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Illumio ZTS Made Easy

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Zero Trust Segmentation Reduces Lateral Movement With Real Time AI Analysis

Extensive Review Finds Illumio Core/ZTS Effective for Large-Scale Segmentation Needs

Challenging Learning Curve but with a satisfying end result.

4.8

(196 Ratings)

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