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New Illumio Technology Offers New Encryption Options To Protect Customers' Traffic In Hybrid Cloud EnvironmentsSUNNYVALE, Calif., June 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Illumio today announced its SecureConnect policy-based IPsec encryption capability can terminate on leading VPN gateways, including the Cisco ASA firewall. The new SecureConnect Gateway enables encrypted connectivity between Windows and Linux workloads in cloud computing environments including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and traditional security gateways running in the data center. This innovation was developed in collaboration with many of the company's customers in order to reduce friction of securely taking advantage of public clouds while leveraging existing data center security investments. "Traditional approaches to encrypting and decrypting traffic in traditional data centers can be operationally challenging and are frequently implemented on an ad-hoc basis," said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at ESG Research. "Illumio's new capability can break down the encryption barrier between cloud workload and data center security operations, enhancing the enterprise's journey to the hybrid cloud." The Illumio SecureConnect Gateway complements Illumio's adaptive segmentation and live application dependency mapping technologies, offering a "triple threat" of integrated software security services for agile hybrid cloud deployments. Since the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)TM first shipped in October 2014, it has offered SecureConnect, policy-based IPsec workload-to-workload encryption for data-in-motion. This extension of SecureConnect provides the same IPsec encryption for data-in-motion and now adds the ASA and other VPN gateways. IPsec is enabled on cloud workloads using existing operating system IPsec mechanisms such as strongSwan in Linux and Microsoft IPsec in Windows environments. "Being able to seamlessly fuse encryption – must-have in data protection and compliance – into hybrid cloud operations is a core tenant of what makes Illumio a leader in cloud security," said Alan Cohen, Chief Commercial Officer of Illumio. "Helping customers take advantage of existing capabilities rather than introducing new chokepoints and appliances is what makes the Illumio Adaptive Security Platform elegant and unique." Additional Benefits SecureConnect Gateway Architecture Additional information about Illumio's SecureConnect capabilities can be found at https://www.illumio.com/services. About Illumio
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