Mapping Illumio to Department of Defense Zero Trust Architecture

This technical brief outlines how Illumio aligns with the Department of Defense Zero Trust Reference Architecture, which comprises seven critical pillars for cybersecurity resources. These pillars include User, Device, Application and Workload, Data, Network and Environment, Automation and Orchestration, and Visibility and Analytics. Illumio's Zero Trust Segmentation platform facilitates the visualization and enforcement of security policies across these pillars, enabling comprehensive visibility of all traffic between workloads from an application-centric perspective. The brief details the importance of preventing lateral traffic propagation during a breach, ensuring minimal operational disruption. It also describes how Illumio categorizes and labels resources according to agency-specific definitions, creating a least-privilege policy model. Furthermore, the document discusses the requirements for protecting data, users, devices, networks, and applications, and how Illumio's solutions address these needs through automation, orchestration, and real-time risk analytics.