Illumio Joins the Microsoft Sentinel Partner Ecosystem
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– Illumio has joined Microsoft Sentinel’s partner ecosystem based on its experience with Microsoft Security technologies and close collaboration with Microsoft.
– The integration enables security teams to detect risks faster, follow attack paths precisely, and isolate threats within existing Microsoft workflows.
– Microsoft Sentinel is evolving into an AI-ready platform that unifies security data and provides graph-powered visibility for modern defense.
– Illumio is contributing to Sentinel’s development through scenario validation, product feedback, and creating solutions like connectors and analytics.
– This partnership aims to reduce alert fatigue, accelerate investigations, and improve cyber resilience through accessible integrated solutions in the Microsoft Security Store.
Illumio has officially become a member of the Microsoft Sentinel partner ecosystem, a significant step that enhances security capabilities for organizations operating in complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This partnership brings Illumio’s breach containment expertise directly into the Microsoft security framework, offering customers streamlined threat detection and response within familiar workflows.
According to Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio, the integration of Illumio Insights with Microsoft Sentinel’s data lake, security graph, and Security Copilot enables security teams to identify risks more quickly, trace attack paths with accuracy, and isolate threats immediately. He emphasized that this collaboration helps reduce alert fatigue, speeds up investigations, and strengthens overall cyber resilience by making advanced breach containment tools more accessible and easier to deploy.
Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, noted that Microsoft Sentinel has been reimagined as an AI-ready platform, consolidating security data into a unified, enriched data lake. This evolution provides graph-powered visibility and intelligent agent capabilities, positioning Sentinel as the core of modern cyber defense. Jakkal highlighted the importance of a strong partner ecosystem in creating integrated security solutions available through the Microsoft Security Store, reinforcing the idea that security is a collaborative effort.
Illumio is actively collaborating with Microsoft product teams to influence the development of Sentinel, validating new scenarios, offering operational feedback, and expanding API functionality. Through the creation of connectors, analytics, playbooks, hunting queries, Jupyter notebook jobs, and Security Copilot agents, Illumio leverages Sentinel’s open architecture and advanced analytics to deliver innovative solutions to a global customer base via the Microsoft Security Store.
Microsoft Sentinel is expanding from its traditional SIEM role into an AI-ready security platform. It now provides defenders with unified security data, intelligent reasoning tools for data interpretation, and enriched context through graph-powered visibility. By integrating these features, Sentinel serves as a scalable backbone for modern cybersecurity, helping organizations stay ahead of evolving threats.
(Source: ITWire Australia)
