Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium

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Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium is ranked #23 of 29 in microsegmentation software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, Self-hosted.

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Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium Contact sales Enterprise networking, security, and observability features and support isovalent.com · 8 Oct 2026

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Deployment model: hybrid

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The record

Product: It is an enterprise-grade, hardened distribution of Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon, built and supported by the Cilium creators.
Networking: Cilium provides networking and security at the network layer, while supporting multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Network policy: Enterprise network policy includes DNS-aware, Layer 7, and deny policies for fine-grained traffic control and micro-segmentation.
Observability: Hubble provides real-time network flow visibility, policy visualization, and a user interface for troubleshooting and network management.
Runtime security: Tetragon adds runtime enforcement and security observability.
Cluster connectivity: Cluster Mesh connects clusters across public clouds including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as on-premises environments.
Service mesh: The product provides sidecar-free service-to-service communication and advanced load balancing.
Security capabilities: Tetragon supports protocol enforcement, IP and port whitelisting, and automatic application-aware policy generation.
Deployment: The cited deployment guidance covers installation through Azure Marketplace, an Azure Resource Manager template, or Azure CLI.
Feature enablement: The page says Hubble UI, DNS Proxy HA, and Tetragon are not enabled by default when creating or upgrading an AKS cluster with the product.
Support: The vendor describes enterprise-grade support from its experts and professional services to help deploy and manage Cilium in production.
Company: Isovalent says it was founded by the creators and maintainers of Cilium and eBPF.
Ownership: Cisco announced completion of its acquisition of Isovalent on December 21, 2023.

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Microsegmentation Software in 2026#23 of 29
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Sources

isovalent.com/blog/post/cilium-azure-kubernetes-servi· checked 8 Oct 2026
isovalent.com/projects/· checked 8 Oct 2026
isovalent.com/blog/post/cisco-acquires-isovalent/· checked 8 Oct 2026