Illumio Expert

This introductory self-paced course offers a comprehensive overview of the Illumio Breach Containment Platform. You’ll gain insight into Illumio as a company, explore key concepts such as Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation, and discover how the platform secures networks across cloud environments and data centers. The course also introduces the platform’s core components and their functions, providing you with a solid foundation for understanding how Illumio helps contain breaches and protect critical infrastructure.      

This course covers a detailed introduction to labels and policy objects within the Illumio platform, building on the "Intro to Illumio" course. You’ll learn the importance of labels in workload identification and policy rules, and how to define and use both standard and flexible labels. Additionally, the course covers IP Lists, Label Groups, and Services, providing a comprehensive understanding of their role in enforcing security policies.      

This intermediate course helps you understand managed and unmanaged workloads within the Illumio Platform, with a focus on managing and troubleshooting Virtual Enforcement Nodes (VENs). Building on the "Intro to Illumio" course, it covers the basics of workloads, VEN architecture, how to pair VENs, and the steps to troubleshoot common VEN issues.      

This intermediate course teaches the fundamentals of policy management within the Illumio platform, requiring completion of the "Intro to Illumio" course. You’ll explore how policies work, including various options and types, and learn to create and apply rules. The course also covers the use of Illumio’s visualization tools for evaluating network flows.      

This course builds on your knowledge of policy management in the Illumio platform, following the completion of "Intro to Illumio" and "Illumio Policy Management Level 1." You’ll learn advanced policy concepts, how to write scopeless and scoped rules, apply segmentation strategies, and manage policy changes. The course also introduces Endpoint policies and covers how to implement and troubleshoot them.      

Focused on User Administration within the Illumio platform, this intermediate course requires prior completion of "Intro to Illumio." The course covers essential user management tasks, including the difference between local and external users, adding and removing users from the PCE, applying access restrictions, adding service accounts, and troubleshooting basic user permission issues.      

This intermediate course focuses on the functions of the Illumio API, requiring prior completion of "Intro to Illumio" course. You’ll learn about the core API functions (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE) and various authentication methods. The course also introduces the basics of using an Illumio API tool, such as the Workloader command-line tool.      

This course will teach you advanced rule writing concepts for complex policies and how to troubleshoot policy issues as well as how to tighten policies, identify core services and write core services rules. This course utilizes Illumination+ Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): Introduction to Illumio Core (Self Paced), Labels and Policy Objects, Workloads, Policy Management Level 1 and 2.

This course will teach you the architecture, key concepts, and the integration requirements to use Illumio Segmentation for  Kubernetes. You will learn how Illumio Segmentation provides visibility and segmentation for containerized applications.  Before you take this course, please make sure you have taken the following course(s): 101 Introduction to Illumio Segmentation (Self-paced) before taking this course. 

To earn the Illumio Expert certification, you need to pass both the Written exam and Practical (lab) exam. Each of these sessions is proctored. Use the Exam scheduler to:  learn about the exam format download the Study Guide schedule the Written and Practical exam sessions you would like to attend