Illumio Platform Expert
The Illumio Expert Certification demonstrates advanced mastery in complex policy design, asset protection, and advanced policy troubleshooting. Learners deepen their understanding of the full incident‑response lifecycle, ensuring they can support security teams during real events. The program also introduces modern deployment areas: container environments, agentless coverage, the CVEN agent, and advanced segmentation with CLAS mode. By completion, Experts are equipped to guide and optimize Illumio deployments, across diverse and demanding environments.
Exam pre-requisites:
- Completed all courses in the certification track.
- Passed the Illumio Associate and Specialist exam.
- Customers must have completed at least 5 instructor-led courses or attended an Illumio 3-day or 5-day private class.
- Illumio Services Partners must have received the Illumio Architect Certification.
Exam format:
- Proctored, 2-part online exam: 1. Written multiple-choice exam (1.5 hours), 2. Practical exam (2 hours).
| Course Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Self-Paced | The self-paced option contains slides and quizzes allowing you to prepare for the certification exam at your own convenience. |
| Instructor-Led | The instructor-led option provides a virtual session where users walk through different concepts with the help of an instructor. A lab environment is also provided where users will have temporary access to sandbox PCE instances allowing the skills learned in the virtual session to be tested. |
101 Intro to Illumio
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.
111 Onboarding
This self-paced course introduces the process of onboarding and managing workloads in the Illumio Console across both data center and cloud environments. Learners will explore how to deploy and manage Virtual Enforcement Nodes (VENs) and connect assets from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). For the videos on Onboarding Cloud Assets: AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP, watch the video(s) that apply to your infrastructure. If you are taking the Certification exam, you will need to complete all of the videos.
121 Identify Assets
This series provides a step-by-step guide to identifying and organizing both data center and cloud assets using Illumio’s labeling and policy framework. You’ll learn how to create and manage labels, map cloud tags, define applications, and build foundational policy objects to enable effective segmentation and visibility.
133 Insights & Visibility
This course shows you how to use Illumio’s visibility and Insights features to understand your environment and traffic flows. You’ll learn how to map workloads with labels, use services and IP lists, and explore key views like Map, Traffic, and Mesh. You’ll also get an introduction to Illumio Insights and Insights Agent, and then finish with a short Knowledge Check to confirm what you’ve learned.
211 Segmentation Policy Intro
This introductory course provides a foundational understanding of segmentation policy in Illumio. Learners will explore core policy concepts, including application and organizational policies, allow and deny rules, and how segmentation rules are structured, evaluated, and enforced across data center and cloud environments. Through practical explanations and console-based examples, the course demonstrates how to design effective segmentation strategies, develop policies in phases, and use deny rules to establish strong security boundaries while allowing approved communications. Learners will also gain insight into the provisioning process and how policy changes are prepared, versioned, and delivered to workloads.
221 Policy Cloud
This course introduces the fundamentals of Cloud Policy in Illumio. Learners explore core cloud policy concepts, including scope boundaries, intrascope communication, and extrascope rule design. Through practical, console-based examples, the course demonstrates how cloud policies are structured and enforced to control communication within and across cloud environments. A brief Knowledge Check concludes the course to reinforce key concepts and workflows.
231 Policy Data Center
This course introduces how to design and build scalable data center policy in Illumio using a phased segmentation strategy. Across 10 modules, you’ll learn the main types of policy, how to approach segmentation strategy, and how to progress from application-level controls to role-based policy—first for all services and then for specified services only. You’ll also learn how to write extrascope rules and IP list rules, and how to use organization policy deny rules. Finally, you’ll learn how to separate environments using organization policy. The course concludes with a Knowledge Check to confirm you can apply these concepts correctly.
241 Policy Endpoint
This introductory Endpoint course explains how Illumio Endpoint differs from traditional server segmentation and prepares learners to deploy and manage Endpoint in real environments. Learners begin by comparing server vs. endpoint VEN behavior and use cases, then walk through the endpoint pairing process to bring devices under management. From there, the course demonstrates how to create and apply endpoint policy, with practical, console-based examples that show how endpoint communications are controlled and validated. Finally, learners learn how policy and visibility behave across domain and non-domain interfaces, helping them anticipate common rollout considerations and avoid surprises during deployment. The course concludes with a Knowledge Check to confirm understanding of key endpoint concepts, workflows, and common considerations.
313 Policy Advanced
This advanced course builds on foundational Illumio segmentation knowledge to help learners design, interpret, and troubleshoot more sophisticated policy models. Learners will dive deep into how scopes shape policy intent and enforcement, including working with multiple scopes, label group policy, and the nuances of extrascope rule behavior through guided examples. The course also explores the full policy lifecycle and operational workflow—from draft to active to archive—so learners understand how changes can be provisioned and reverted if necessary. Through a series of real-world “complex policy” scenarios and hands-on console walkthroughs, learners will learn to evaluate policy outcomes, identify conflicts or unexpected behavior, and apply troubleshooting techniques with confidence. Finally, learners will be introduced to core services policy patterns and best practices, reinforced through multiple examples that demonstrate how to consistently enable essential services while maintaining strong segmentation boundaries. The course concludes with a Knowledge Check to confirm understanding of advanced policy concepts and common troubleshooting approaches.
321 Incident Response
In today’s threat landscape, even the strongest security posture can be breached. This self-paced course equips learners with a practical, step-by-step approach to incident response using Illumio. Participants will learn how to: Prepare for potential breaches by setting up labels, policies, and containment strategies in advance. Respond swiftly to isolate compromised systems, block malicious traffic, and maintain business continuity. Recover safely by investigating incidents, restoring operations, and refining future response plans. Learners will explore Illumio’s label-based segmentation model to enforce quarantine levels, automate containment, and support forensic investigations—all while keeping critical systems online.
331 Containers
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.
Illumio Platform Expert Certification Exam
Once you feel prepared, contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.
Once you feel prepared, contact training@illumio.com to schedule an examination session.