Working in infosec means being bombarded with promises of security solutions by vendors with no hard evidence to back up their hype. Illumio knew that their work implementing and managing micro- segmentation for client networks improved their clients’ ability to secure their systems, but without a way to quantify by how much, it was hard to cut through the noise of shady security controls claiming similar benefits. To prove the value of not just their services, but of micro-segmentation in general as a control, Illumio decided they needed to quantitatively demonstrate how the presence of micro-segmentation would affect the time and effort needed for attackers to access trophy targets. They planned to test its efficacy in an artificial environment where they could methodically con

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