Illumio
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| Cloud computing security | |
| Industry | Data Center and Cloud computing security |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Andrew Rubin, P.J. Kirner |
| Headquarters | 160 San Gabriel Drive, Sunnyvale, California, United States |
| Products | Adaptive Security Platform |
| Website |
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Illumio is an enterprise data center and cloud computing security company. Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and PJ Kirner and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.[1]
Funding
Illumio is backed by venture capital firms that have invested $142.5 million over three rounds of funding. The initial $8 million A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners led the company’s $34.5 million B round with participation by Formation 8, Data Collective, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Yahoo! Founder Jerry Yang.[2] BlackRock and Accel led the $100 million C round with participation from a number of investors including private investors John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Beniof as well as venture capital firms Andreesesen Horowitz, Formation 8 and General Catalyst Partners.
Technology
Illumio uses a security model that adapts to infrastructure or application changes. Illumio’s technology decouples security from the underlying infrastructure, including the network and hypervisor.[3] This allows for a security approach that works across a variety of computing environments, including private data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.[4]
Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) uses the context (state, relationships, etc.) of workloads (bare-metal and virtual servers, etc.) in the computing environment and relies on graph theory to adapt to changes while keeping security policies intact.[5]
Unlike traditional security systems such as firewalls that rely on imperative programming techniques due to static networking constructs, Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is based on declarative programming and computes security in real time.[6]
Partnerships
Illumio has a number of partnerships with enterprise technology companies in a variety of markets, including F5 Networks, Docker and Mesosphere.
Illumio announced a partnership with F5 Networks in April 2015 that integrates the Illumio ASP with the F5 BIG-IP product line to provide additional security policy enforcement points in data centers.
In September, Illumio announced partnerships with Docker, a container technology company and Mesosphere, a provider of management technologies for distributed computing systems. Through these partnerships, joint customers will be able to integrate security into containerized application development, deployment and management processes to continuously deliver security across data centers and clouds.
References
- ↑ Kim, Eugene. "Why This Startup Raised $42.5 Million Before It Came Out Of Stealth/". Website. Business Insider. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ Hesseldahl, Arik. "Stealth Security Startup Illumio Secures $34 Million From General Catalyst". Website. All Things D. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
- ↑ "Illumio Product Overview". Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ↑ Metz, Cade. "Startup Aims to Remake Computer Security for the Cloud Age". Website. Wired. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ Babcock, Charles. "Illumio Takes New Cloud, Data Center Security Approach". Website. InformationWeek. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
- ↑ Hall, Susan. "Illumio: A Security Platform That Follows the Workload Across the New Stack Universe". Website. The New Stack. Retrieved 22 October 2014.