Case Study: Le Point achieves Zero Trust microsegmentation and end-to-end visibility with Illumio Core

Le Point News Media Elevates Its Security Beyond Traditional VLANs

Le Point, a leading French news magazine and digital publisher with over 8 million monthly unique visitors, needed to strengthen its network security beyond traditional VLANs to protect hard-to-patch application servers and restrict remote access (RDP/SSH) in an active‑active dual‑cluster environment. Prior vendor attempts to deploy policy-based controls failed to handle the two-cluster complexity, leaving the newsroom exposed to potential DDoS and other cyber threats.

Le Point deployed Illumio Core for microsegmentation, gaining near real‑time visibility into traffic, centralized administrative access, and fast, cluster‑friendly deployment across VMs and physical servers. The solution simplified firewall orchestration and day‑to‑day administration, delivered Zero Trust controls and selective policy enforcement, reduced attack surface and operational risk, and increased overall cyber resilience and cost efficiency.

Le Point

Jean-Philippe Gramond

IT Operations Director