Elisity Recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Enterprise Networking, 2025 and Representative Vendor in 2025 Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation

We think recognition reinforces Elisity's leadership in the fast-growing market for identity-based Zero Trust network security solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elisity, a pioneer in identity-based microsegmentation, today announced its recognition as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner^® Hype Cycle™ and a Representative Vendor in two 2025 Gartner^® Market Guide reports: "Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation" and "Market Guide for Campus Infrastructure and Operations Software.” We believe the recognition highlights Elisity's commitment to delivering comprehensive Zero Trust network security solutions and reinforces its mission to help organizations proactively prevent security risks, reduce network complexity, and achieve Zero Trust maturity across their entire enterprise infrastructure.

The enterprise networking and security markets are experiencing significant growth. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2025, "Enterprise network equipment market spending will reach over $104 billion in 2025, and grow to $135 billion by year-end 2028, the core enterprise on-premises element of NaaS solution offerings."

"We are delighted to be recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in two market reports," said James Winebrenner, CEO of Elisity. "In our opinion, the acknowledgment reflects our ongoing dedication to delivering transformational security capabilities that enable organizations to achieve least-privilege access faster than any other solution on the market, while seamlessly integrating with existing infrastructure investments."

Driving this growth is an escalating security challenge. According to the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation, "Zero-trust initiatives drove a new wave of data center segmentation projects, with the objective of implementing least privilege access and fine-grained zones, sometimes down to the individual workload or container. The primary use cases for microsegmentation include limiting lateral movement of ransomware and other potentially malicious traffic and implementing mature network segmentation. Meanwhile, the market for campus infrastructure and operations software offerings is emerging and developing rapidly, driven by security risks, the commoditization of hardware, and a lack of IT resources to manage distributed and centralized campus environments."

"Elisity delivered something I've rarely seen in 20 years of cybersecurity deployments - we implemented comprehensive microsegmentation across our operational technology environments with zero P1 incidents and no business downtime," said Edmond Mack, CISO at Cencora and former CISO at Haleon. "The elegance of Elisity's policy overlay approach meant we didn't need to rebuild our network infrastructure, and the results were so successful that our business teams actually asked us to accelerate the timeline. In an industry where most security tools just detect and identify risk, Elisity provides true protection across our entire estate, which is exactly what operational environments demand. Gartner's Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation, projects this trend will accelerate significantly, forecasting that 'by 2027, 25% of enterprises working toward zero trust architecture will use more than one deployment form of microsegmentation, which is up from less than 5% in 2025.'"¹

Additionally, according to Gartner's Market Guide for Campus Infrastructure and Operations Software, "by 2028, over 75% of new enterprise campus networks will deploy network security, automation, and management applications from multiple vendors for at least one component of the solution, up from less than 10% in 2025."²

These three key differentiators set Elisty apart:

• Identity-based microsegmentation platform that enables organizations to achieve least privilege access in an average of 14 days from deployment to first active segmentation policy
• AI-powered IdentityGraph™ technology that rapidly discovers every device and correlates comprehensive device insights for automated classification and dynamic security policies
• Platform designed to implement without downtime using existing network switching infrastructure, supporting IT, IoT, and OT environments

Elisity is the only platform that enables organizations to confidently achieve least-privilege access faster than any other solution on the market, averaging 14 days from deployment to first active segmentation policy enforced. Elisity’s innovative Zero Trust microsegmentation solution has gained double-digit year-over-year customer traction in 2024, with a 5x surge in active policies in the last quarter of 2024. Organizations on average, implement and enforce over 1,000 active segmentation policies for protection faster than they thought possible. Elisity expanded its customer base to include several Fortune 500 companies, with over 83% of these customers successfully implementing critical security policies across their entire infrastructure within 90 days. This breakthrough has led to remarkable success stories in clinical Healthcare, and industrial sectors such as Pharma, Electronics, Manufacturing, and Oil & Gas.

For more information about Elisity’s identity-based microsegmentation platform, visit www.elisity.com.

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1. Gartner Report, Market Guide for Network Security Microsegmentation, 2025, by Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur etc., May 2025.
2. Gartner Report, Market Guide for Campus Infrastructure and Operations Software by Adam Hils, Rajpreet Kaur etc., May 2025., by Tim Zimmerman, Mike Leibovitz etc., June

About Elisity

Elisity is a leap forward in network segmentation architecture and is leading the enterprise effort to achieve Zero Trust maturity, proactively prevent security risks, and reduce network complexity. Designed to be implemented in days, without downtime, upon implementation, the platform rapidly discovers every device on an enterprise network and correlates comprehensive device insights into the Elisity IdentityGraph™. This empowers teams with the context needed to automate classification and apply dynamic security policies to any device, wherever and whenever it appears on the network. These granular, identity-based microsegmentation security policies are managed in the cloud and enforced using your existing network switching infrastructure in real-time, even on ephemeral IT/IoT/OT devices. Founded in 2019, Elisity has a global employee footprint and a growing number of customers in the Fortune 500.