SPONSORED Podcast: Katey Wood from Illumio on deployment and using WIndows Filtering Platform

<p>**Apologies on the Zoom issues**</p> <p>This is the 2nd of 3 sponsored podcast interviews with Illumio about Their zero trust product. </p> <p>Katey Wood is the Director of Product Marketing at Illumio.</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateywood/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateywood/</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Topic: Conversation on segmentation and ransomware</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Topic Background: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The attack surface and vulnerabilities are on the rise, along with cyber attacks</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why? Remote everything - cloud collaboration (including processing PII) is the new normal and that means the attack surface is heightened. This requires appropriate network, cloud, and endpoint security.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Double ransom with #data #exfiltration -- more attackers are exfiltrating customer data from businesses and (if ransom is withheld) extorting consumers directly through bitcoin - often in the headlines.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Privacy is a chief security concern now more than ever before, as remote everything continues and #cyberattacks and #ransomware attacks skyrocket.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For businesses, Covid and the new WFH normal means even more vulnerabilities and greater incentive to pay an even higher ransom to avoid privacy law penalties and class-action litigation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enter Segmentation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perimeter security is important, but unfortunately, we all know that alone it’s not enough (i.e. breach, after breach, after high-profile breach).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">#ZeroTrust the assume breach mentality/default deny are philosophies that take security deeper to protect organizations from a threat moving laterally within their environment. This is helpf