Case Study: Creative Artists Agency achieves unified, adaptive network security and faster policy control with Illumio

Creative Artist Agency’s Jeff Blair discusses how Illumio helps his team more easily understand and control what’s happening inside the network

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) faced a changing IT landscape where security could no longer rely on system lock‑downs: teams needed fast, secure access to applications and data across on‑premises and cloud environments, with better visibility into what systems were communicating and the ability to support continuous delivery without funneling firewall changes through a small specialist group. CISO Jeff Blair needed a way to protect closer to the data, log and monitor behavior, and decentralize control while maintaining a unified security view.

Illumio provided a centrally managed control plane separate from enforcement, giving CAA a unified, visual view of network communications and the ability to enforce policies across data centers and public cloud. The result: faster detection and response to anomalous traffic, simpler creation and understanding of security boundaries, reduced dependence on a single team for firewall changes, and secure, scalable delivery of services that supports the agency’s agile, cloud‑forward strategy.

Creative Artists Agency

Jeff Blair

CISO