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The 2026 Forrester Wave For Microsegmentation: Why Illumio Stands Out

A neutral reading of a competitive market, and why Illumio's position deserves attention

Forrester's Q3 2026 Microsegmentation Solutions Wave evaluates 10 vendors across 25 criteria. Here is what the results say about the market, Illumio's Leader position, and what buyers should validate next.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Saturday, August 22, 2026

Your CI/CD Runner Is A Privileged Workload. Contain It.

The Snowflake GitHub Actions flaw shows how one untrusted issue title can become a path into an internal SaaS system

Wiz's Snowflake disclosure shows why CI/CD runners need microsegmentation, narrow egress, short-lived identity, and explicit trust paths. This article turns the incident into a practical containment design.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, August 18, 2026

OT Segmentation Must Survive Edge Compromise

The Polish energy-sector attack showed why VLANs are not containment when one administrator can reach every control subnet

CERT Polska's investigation of the December 2025 energy-sector attack shows how compromised VPN and identity control paths can flatten OT segmentation. This article turns the incident into a practical containment design for remote sites, SCADA, RTUs, HMIs, and safety-critical systems.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Microsegmentation Fails Quietly When Policy Drifts

The first policy is only a snapshot. Containment depends on keeping it aligned with the environment.

Microsegmentation policy can decay as applications, workloads, identities, and exceptions change. This article explains how to detect policy drift, govern exceptions, and continuously prove that lateral movement paths remain closed.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Backup Infrastructure Needs Its Own Containment Boundary

A recovery copy is not resilient when production identities and network paths can still reach it

Ransomware operators target backup systems because destroying recovery increases leverage. This article explains how to isolate backup infrastructure, separate its identity plane, constrain management paths, and test recovery as a Zero Trust boundary.

Posted by Alexander Goller on Tuesday, July 28, 2026