Illumio
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| Company type | Cloud computing security |
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| Industry | Data Center and Cloud computing security |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Andrew Rubin, P.J. Kirner |
| Headquarters | 160 San Gabriel Drive, , |
| Products | Adaptive Security Platform |
| Website | www |
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, United States.[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 keeps 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]
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. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02. 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.