Illumio Reviews

The use cases were centered on microservices within the context of BNP Paribas. This was primarily due to the adoption of microservices and the hybrid cloud environment. The goal was to establish precise control over external network connections.

The feature that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies.       

Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial.

I have been using the solution for the past two years.

I have not worked with the solution directly, so I can’t comment on this aspect.

It scales effectively. To the best of my knowledge, we did not face any problems, despite having a large installation base. We did not encounter issues while expanding the project.

The deployment itself was quite straightforward. It took at least one year.

I would recommend this solution and rate it 9 out of 10. 

It's really good for avoiding and controlling lateral movement. Since everywhere there is ransomware, it's very good for micro-segmentation so that we can allow what is required for application-to-application communication. We are allowing what is required and blocking all unnecessary traffic, so that, in that way, we can control the attack surface, so we can reduce the attack surface. We're trying to secure the application and the company network as well.

We use it to write a policy for all the infrastructure-related servers manually. It will detect the infrastructure flows, and it will advise you automatically that you need to allow the traffic or block it. It'll use access just from the previous flows.

Everything is valuable in Illumio. We love the product.

The auto policy writing is great. The feature will give you the option of the inbound-outbound traffic. 

The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination. 

We have a feature called parallel coordinates. There, we can see what application is talking to which application and where a single application is talking to many applications. 

The illumination definitely stands out. Mapping is great. The application group mapping is useful. 

It's straightforward to set up.

Every month, we're getting new features. It's always improving. I don't see a place where it is weak or lacking in development. 

The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better. 

We'd like labeling to be better. For example, if someone, by mistake, if he edits that labeling part, it should give you a warning pop-up to the effect of "Are sure to edit this enforced application?" so that person immediately will know that this is the enforced application and he should not touch that application labeling.

I've used the solution for more than one and a half years.

The stability is good. It's reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

It is a very scalable product. Expanding is not a problem.

We have about 15 users on the solution. They are mostly engineers as well as two analysts and one product owner. 

We do plan to increase usage. 

Technical support could be better. When we get a reply from support engineers, it is not kind or empathetic. They also delay some responses - sometimes, not always. Maybe it depends from engineer to engineer. They could be a lot better, a lot more helpful.

We did not use anything previously. This is really the best product. 

We have a Nebule product - a Nebule cloud, a Nebule solution that is LSDX, a VMware LSDX. That is also in place, along with Illumio. It is not yet live. We are focusing on Illumio for on-prem. Once it moves to the cloud, we have been considering both Illumio and LSDX.

The initial implementation is simple. It's not complex. 

I was not there during the initial setup, however, the deployment might have taken about there months or so. That included the approvals and the entire setup process. 

In terms of deployment and maintenance, it all depends on how many applications you're going to onboard. It's not a straight answer. It all depends on the amount of work you are doing in your organization. 

There were people to help us from Illumio Professional Services Consultant, so we didn't find it hard to set up in our environment. For the most part, we handled the setup in-house. 

It's too early to really account for an ROI. We still need time with the product. We are seeing value in the product, however.

I'm just an engineer. I don't deal with the licensing aspect of the product.

We looked at a few other options, for example, Guardicore. There were a couple that we examined. We might have also looked at Cisco. 

Right now, we are using a non-production, 21.2.3 version. In production, we are in 19.3.6, which we are going for an upgrade on the weekend, which will be 21.2.30.

Right now, the deployment is on-premises. The roadmap is to go to a SaaS product with Illumio, however, right now, it's on-premises. It is being used for on-premises, however, we are thinking to make use of the cloud as well, using the CloudSecure product.

We like the solution. It's light. It doesn't take too many resources. For anyone to implement the product, it's pretty straightforward and simple. It's also very effective. It's very quick and very flexible to implement. That's the thing I can advise - just to implement this product and try it out.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use the tool to secure our systems. It helps us to adhere to confidentiality and integrity. 

The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files. 

I would like to see better data security in the product. 

I have been using the solution for two years. 

I would rate the product's stability around eight point five out of ten. 

I would rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. 

The solution's tech support supports us 24/7. 

Positive

The installation takes a couple of days to complete. 

The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly basis. 

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. Anyone looking to implement the tool can use it and benefit from it. 

We only deploy Illumio Adaptive Security Platform on the servers, and only apply the server segmentation. Our scope for using Illumio is relatively small, and so far it's good because our scope is only applied to the server farms.

The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build.

Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances.

I have used Illumio Adaptive Security Platform for approximately three years.

Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is stable.

The scalability of the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is good.

We have only the administrators and security team using this solution. There is a title of approximately 10 people using the solution.

The support from Illumio Adaptive Security Platform was good. They always answered my questions and if I needed further help they would arrange a remote session with me.

I rate the support team from Illumio Adaptive Security Platform a four out of five.

Positive

The initial setup of the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform was easy. We took three months to test the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform and the deployment only took another three months. A total of half a year to complete.

We have been using the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform for a while now and we have seen a return on investment.

There is a subscription needed to use Illumio Adaptive Security Platform and we pay every three years. Overall the solution is expensive.

We chose to use Illumio Adaptive Security Platform because a lot of the features were attractive.

I would recommend Illumio Adaptive Security Platform to others.

I rate Illumio Adaptive Security Platform an eight out of ten.

We were sales partners with Illumio, so we didn't implement Illumio on our infrastructure. Rather, we sold Illumio.

The dependency map is most valuable aspect.

I need some further comparisons to point out the weaknesses. That's why I'm looking for comparisons with other products.

I have not had the chance to experiment deeply with it.

From my experience, they are very responsive.

Positive

Illumio was my first micro-segmentation partner.

I am trying to do some technical evaluations between Gandicore and other vendors, yet not any other vendors are being considered.

I would recommend Illumio to all sizes of companies. Even though the whole micro-segmentation movement is pretty new in my region, I would rate Illumio about eight out of ten.

The solution is easy to use. 

The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules.

I have been working with the product for three years. 

I have no issues with the tool's stability. 

I would rate Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's scalability a seven out of ten. 

I haven't contacted the tool's technical support team. 

I would rate Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation's setup a six out of ten. The tool's deployment took two weeks to complete. We relied on two people to help us with the deployment. 

I would rate the product a six out of ten since it's not an end-to-end solution. 

The primary use case is micro-segmentation. It enables network visibility, allowing you to understand how your applications work and the various communication channels they require. Based on this information, you can determine what is allowed and not allowed on your network based on your policy. The use cases also depend on our client’s needs.

Visibility is the most valuable feature of the solution. The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used. We can also block protocols such as RDP, NetBIOS, and ransomware attacks.

The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments. It could include environments with manufacturing sensors or other devices where installing the agent may not be possible. We don't have the same visibility and flexibility that we have on our computer or server.

I have been using the solution for two years.

The stability is good. We are using the SaaS option.

I haven’t faced any scalability issues. We can extend the solution to the cloud.

The initial setup is easygoing. There are complexities, but the product is very good. Once we get a good baseline and discover things we do not want, we can start blocking and micro-segmenting.

The engineers do the updates. Once the agent is installed, you can auto-update the tool when a new release is available.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We've had to implement the infrastructure. In fact, we are changing over to FortiGate's VMX security solution.

The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature.

The ability to operate inside the real technology has been excellent.

The solution's concepts are quite simple.

The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved.

The solution needs to better integrate before we are able to deploy. It would be helpful if we could deploy the solution even if there are difficulties with integrations or other conflicts.

We started studying the solution about one and a half years ago.

We're currently tuning the stability right now. It's not ideal.

The scalability of the solution is excellent.

We've contacted technical support and are currently working with a professional right now for a couple of days each month. So far, we haven't been too satisfied with the assistance they've provided. I'd rate them as okay. Sometimes we are required to wait for a resolution. It can take a while to get a response. We need a special environment, and it takes them time to help us which can be frustrating.

The initial setup of the solution was complex, but not on the side of the organization. The rollout of the core was difficult and we had to extract it and pass it to a technical team.

Deployment took over a year. We went through a lot of applications. There were 22,000 for our team.

We had the assistance of a consultant during the initial setup and we were satisfied with their level of service.

We have a full partnership with Illumino.

I was in charge of the program to raise the adoption of the technology within our organization. We're using the latest version of the solution and the private cloud deployment model. The version we are using is either version 18 or 19. We are also using some legacy products as well.

I'd recommend that those considering implementing the solution go ahead and try it out. Just use it and don't be afraid to test it out.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's a good product with good technical and informational guides. However, the amount of vulnerabilities we've come across is surprising.