Andrew Rubin: Get ready to go faster

In this episode of the Core Strength Podcast, we sit down with Andrew Rubin, CEO and Co-Founder of Illumio, to explore how AI is reshaping the economics and assumptions behind network security. As AI enables vulnerabilities to be discovered and exploited at machine speed, organizations are being forced to reconsider areas they historically viewed as too expensive or operationally difficult, including patching, segmentation, containment, and east-west visibility. The conversation explores why lateral movement remained a blind spot for so long, how Illumio approached microsegmentation as a new category, and why segmentation and network observability are increasingly connected.  We also discuss how AI can help defenders generate policy and surface important signals, while humans remain essential for decisions involving operational risk. Andrew explains why organizations may eventually accept more operational risk in exchange for faster containment, why resilience and recovery are becoming more important, and why security teams will need to get comfortable moving much faster.