Illumio Inc., a company focusing on breach containment, has unveiled the Insights Agent as a new feature within its Illumio Insights cloud detection and response (CDR) solution.
This AI-powered tool is designed to minimize alert fatigue and enhance threat containment by offering real-time, customized alerts alongside quick remediation suggestions, enabling security teams to manage threats efficiently before they escalate.
Real-Time Discovery and Containment
"Security teams are overwhelmed by noise, and we don’t need more useless alerts; we need more actionable answers," commented Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio.
He adds, "Illumio Insights was built to deliver clarity, not clutter. With Agent, we’re taking the next step: every user gets a personalized risk view tailored to their role, along with immediate, practical guidance on what to do next. This is real-time discovery and containment, designed for the people who defend our organizations every day."
Improved Threat Detection and Guidance
Integrating seamlessly with Illumio Insights, Agent equips role-aware threat detection and tailored instructions
Integrating seamlessly with Illumio Insights, Agent provides role-aware threat detection and tailored instructions according to each user's function, whether it's a threat hunter, incident responder, or compliance analyst.
It prioritizes threats based on severity and highlights the most significant issues for quick and effective containment.
This is especially crucial as teams face an average of over 2,000 alerts per day, as noted in the 2025 Global Cloud Detection and Response Report, and reducing triage time becomes essential.
Enhanced Visibility and Risk Management
Powered by an AI security graph, Insights ingests and evaluates cloud-scale network data, providing real-time insights into traffic and potential risks.
This serves as the foundation for Agent, allowing fast and precise threat detection and containment.
Key Features of Agent
- Persona-Based AI Guidance: Users can select roles such as threat hunter or incident responder to receive insights specific to their responsibilities.
- In-Depth Investigative Analysis: The system offers AI-driven analysis of workloads, policies, and flows with ranked recommendations based on severity.
- Accelerated Threat Detection: Continuous monitoring identifies anomalies in communication flows and workloads.
- AI-Driven Response Plan: Step-by-step remediation guidance is provided, with automated handoffs across the security infrastructure for efficient resolution.
- MITRE ATT&CK Mapping: Agent aligns threats with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to help users understand attacker methods, prioritize actions, and reduce alert fatigue.
- One-Click Containment: Through integration with Illumio Segmentation, it allows for immediate isolation of compromised workloads without requiring host agents.
Availability and Deployment
Currently available in public preview, Agent can be accessed as part of Insights and through the Microsoft Security Store for Microsoft clients, anticipating widespread release by December.
Both Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation are fully integrated across Microsoft's corporate IT infrastructure.
Illumio Inc., the breach containment company, announced Insights Agent, a new capability within Illumio Insights, the company’s AI-driven cloud detection and response (CDR) solution.
Agent is an AI-powered, persona-driven guide designed to reduce alert fatigue, accelerate threat detection, and enable containment by delivering real-time, tailored alerts and instant one-click remediation recommendations. This powerful extension of Insights helps security teams stay focused and move quickly to contain threats before they escalate.
Real-time discovery and containment
“Security teams are overwhelmed by noise, and we don’t need more useless alerts; we need more actionable answers,” says Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio.
“Illumio Insights was built to deliver clarity, not clutter. With Agent, we’re taking the next step: every user gets a personalized risk view tailored to their role, along with immediate, practical guidance on what to do next. This is real-time discovery and containment, designed for the people who defend our organizations every day.”
Threat detection and actionable guidance
Building on the foundation of Illumio Insights, Agent delivers role-aware threat detection and actionable guidance aligned to each user’s responsibilities, whether threat hunter, incident responder, or compliance analyst. It automatically prioritizes threats by severity and surfaces the most relevant ones for each user, enabling faster decision-making and more effective containment.
With teams receiving an average of more than 2,000 alerts per day (roughly one every 42 seconds), according to the 2025 Global Cloud Detection and Response Report, reducing triage delays has never been more critical.
Real-time visibility into traffic and risks
The intelligent, targeted approach of Agent is made possible by the advanced capabilities of Insights. Powered by an AI security graph, Illumio Insights ingests and analyzes cloud-scale network data, delivering real-time visibility into traffic and risks.
This purpose-built solution forms the foundation for Agent, enabling security teams to detect and contain threats with unprecedented speed and precision.
Agent spotlight innovations
- Persona-Based AI Guidance: Users select from roles like threat hunter, incident responder, data security, or compliance monitor to receive insights tailored to their responsibilities.
- In-Depth Investigative Analysis: AI-powered analysis of workloads, policies, and flows with severity-ranked recommendations.
- Accelerated Threat Detection: Continuous background monitoring of flow and workload communication to spot anomalies.
- AI-Driven Response Plan: This plan guides users through prioritized, step-by-step remediation with automated handoffs across the security stack for fast, effective resolution.
- MITRE ATT&CK Mapping: Agent maps threats to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, helping users understand attacker techniques, prioritize responses, and reduce alert fatigue.
- One-Click Containment: Integrated with Illumio Segmentation, it enables instant isolation of compromised workloads; no host agents are required.
Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation
Agent is available in public preview as part of Insights and for Microsoft customers via the Microsoft Security Store, with general availability expected in December.
Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation have been deployed across the entire corporate IT environment at Microsoft.
