Elisity Microsegmentation Platform Origin Story

This Elisity presentation at Network Field Day 36 includes an overview of the Elisity origin story. Elisity was founded in 2019 and has was built to be a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and today Elisity is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented rapidly, without downtime, upon implementation, the platform instantly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph .

This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.

In 2024 The Forrester Wave : Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2024 was published. In this evaluation, Elisity was cited as a Strong Performer in Microsegmentation Solutions. Elisity was one of 11 vendors evaluated for the Forrester Wave based on 23 criteria that examined a vendor’s current offering, strategy, and market presence. In its first appearance in a Forrester Wave, Elisity received the highest score possible in the vision, roadmap, network-based enforcement, and OT, healthcare, and IoT criteria.