Case Study: Brooks strengthens ransomware resilience and accelerates Zero Trust segmentation with Illumio Core

Brooks Makes Strides in Security Strategy With Illumio

Brooks, a leading performance running brand and Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, needed to protect its retail and e-commerce operations from growing ransomware threats. With a largely flat network and a small global IT team, the company required better visibility into traffic flows and a way to limit unnecessary user-to-server access to prevent lateral spread of attacks.

By deploying Illumio Core and adopting Zero Trust microsegmentation, Brooks took a data-driven approach to monitor flows, visually test rules, and apply deny policies that block all but essential user-to-server traffic. The result: rapid protection of hundreds of Windows servers, implementation months ahead of schedule with zero application downtime, improved alerting and risk insights, and stronger ransomware resilience.

Brooks

Ryan Fried

Senior Security Engineer