Illumio Awarded DoD ESI Purchase Agreement to Accelerate Risk Reduction with Zero Trust Segmentation

The Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Platform stops attacks from spreading across the hybrid attack surface to increase agencies’ cyber resilience

Illumio Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation company, today announced it has been awarded an Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) Purchase Agreement by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The ESI agreement will streamline the procurement process and reduce costs for the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) organizations so agencies can implement the Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) Platform to stop attacks from spreading across the hybrid attack surface to reduce risk and increase cyber resilience.

The attack surface is growing and becoming more interconnected, making agencies more vulnerable to cyberattacks than ever before. In fact, an ESG survey found that in the last two years, 76 percent of organizations experienced a ransomware attack, 66 percent were hit by at least one supply chain attack, and over half believe a cyberattack is likely to result in a disaster for their organization.

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Today, the reality is that breaches happen, which is why the federal government is turning to Zero Trust strategies to build resilience to cyberattacks. An essential pillar of Zero Trust is Zero Trust Segmentation (aka microsegmentation), a modern security approach that contains and minimizes the impact of breaches. The Illumio ZTS Platform proactively prevents breaches from spreading throughout hybrid environments (multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints).

The ESI agreement will enable federal organizations to accelerate their Zero Trust journeys and achieve microsegmentation goals more quickly by making it easier for them to access technology that stops cyberattacks like ransomware from moving to reach mission-critical assets. Additionally, the streamlined procurement process will play an instrumental role in enabling DoD and IC organizations to meet the FY 2024 Zero Trust deadlines and requirements laid out in the 2021 Executive Order on “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.”

“Federal networks are becoming more interconnected and cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and severe, which is why agencies and commands need to prioritize security strategies that build resilience. Even with the best perimeter protections and detection and response technologies, cyber attackers still slip through the cracks – and when that happens, we need to be prepared to stop them in their tracks so they cannot reach mission-critical assets,” said Mark Sincevich, Federal Director at Illumio. “This ESI agreement will help agencies make cyber resilience a reality. Now, agencies can procure Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation (aka microsegmentation) faster and more efficiently, so they can stop potential cyberattacks and malware from spreading laterally. This will help the DoD continue the mission and reduce risk.”

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This announcement builds on Illumio’s momentum and rapid growth in the federal market:

• Illumio was named a Leader in the Forrester New Wave™: Microsegmentation, Q1 2022. Purpose build for the Zero Trust security model, Illumio was also named a leader the Forrester Wave™ Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020.
• Bishop Fox conducted a series of emulated attacks to measure how Illumio can contain an active ransomware attack. Their findings showed that Illumio Core stops attacks from spreading in 10 minutes, nearly 4 times faster than detection and response capabilities alone.
• Illumio was selected for an AFWERX Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracted by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (SFRL) in addition to the STTR Phase I award to deliver ransomware containment on endpoints to the national security collaboration center.
• Illumio announced the appointment of Gary Barlet as Federal Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to help government agencies, contractors and the broader ecosystem accelerate Zero Trust journeys and drive resilience