Identity-Centric Microsegmentation - Elisity Presentation Recording: Leapfrogging Traditional Architectures to Achieve Zero Trust at Scale
Informational presentation to the CSA ZT workgroup by Elisity."Identity-Centric Microsegmentation: Leapfrogging Traditional Architectures to Achieve Zero Trust at Scale"Abstract: Enterprises today face mounting challenges in protecting their networks as attack surfaces expand rapidly across all users, workloads, and devices, with attackers leveraging lateral movement in over 70% of successful breaches. Traditional microsegmentation approaches have largely failed due to complexity, requiring extensive reconfiguration of networks through NAC, agents, firewalls, and VLANs—often resulting in stalled implementations and partial coverage. Elisity's leap forward in network segmentation architecture enables enterprises to rapidly implement microsegmentation in weeks rather than years by applying identity-based microsegmentation that leverages existing network infrastructure. This session will demonstrate how organizations can achieve comprehensive Zero Trust implementation across both hybrid IT and IoT/OT/IoMT environments without disruption, new hardware, agents, or complex network reconfiguration.Speaker info: Dana Yanch - Director of Technical Marketing & Integrations, Product Manager, Elisity, Inc.Dana Yanch has over 16 years in the networking and security field, focusing on areas such as large enterprise campus and datacenter design, network security, software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN), and cloud networking, Dana's journey has led him through various roles including network architecture, implementation engineering, sales engineering, technical marketing, and product management, each contributing to his well-rounded expertise.James Winebrenner - CEO, Elisity, Inc.James Winebrenner is the CEO of Elisity, an innovative enterprise cybersecurity solution provider. Since assuming the role in November 2020, his visionary leadership has positioned Elisity to redefine the network security market by adopting a software-first approach to bring identity-based microsegmentation to critical infrastructure in the life sciences, oil & gas, clinical healthcare, and manufacturing verticals. Prior to his role at Elisity, James served as the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aviatrix, the leader in the multi-cloud networking and security market. During his tenure he achieved remarkable results, introducing an enterprise go-to-market strategy and tripling the company's revenue. Before that, James worked at Cisco Systems, where he played a pivotal role in leading the transition from legacy routing to software-defined wide area and cloud networking as part of the Global Routing and SD-WAN team. James came to Cisco via the acquisition of Viptela, the inventor of SD-WAN technology, where he served as the Vice President of Worldwide Sales, leading the company's GTM function from inception through acquisition by Cisco. Throughout his career, James has also held influential leadership positions at Cisco and Check Point Software Technologies. Notably, during his role at Check Point, he was instrumental in shaping enterprise cybersecurity strategies that are now recognized as industry best practices.