Secure Your Network with Micro-Segmentation
Deliver intrinsic security for applications in private and public cloud environments by allowing known traffic flows—and disallowing everything else. Block unauthorized lateral movements by enabling VMware NSX micro-segmentation, and then define and enforce network security policies consistently on any workload hosted anywhere in your environment. Do it all from a single management pane: lock down critical apps, create a logical DMZ in software, and reduce the attack surface of your virtual desktop environment.
Introduction to VMware NSX Security and Micro-Segmentation Video
Strengthen Defenses with Granular Protection
Secure critical workloads and environments with granular micro-segmentation protection, stateful Layer 7 controls, and dramatically simplified management.
Elevate Intrinsic Security
Elevate Intrinsic Security
Organizations are effectively protecting critical workloads inside the perimeter firewall with micro-segmentation.
Shield Your Apps with Consistent, Intrinsic Security
Slash Policy Discovery Time
Accelerate policy generation with automated app discovery, recommendations for groups and segmentation rules, and intuitive workflows for iterative planning — all driven by the unique visibility NSX has into network traffic and workload behavior.
Extend to Stateful L7 and Beyond
Go beyond basic Layer 4 port blocking policies to a complete stack of stateful Layer 7 firewall controls. Then add NSX Distributed IDS/IPS, an advanced threat detection engine purpose-build to detect lateral threat movements across multi-cloud environments.
Enjoy Consistent Policy Enforcement
Stop managing disparate policies across your environment. Enforce network security policies that span multi-data-center and hybrid cloud environments to secure traffic between VMs, containers, bare metal servers, and public clouds, globally.
Provide Automated Security Policies
Leverage a dynamic object-based policy model that automatically keeps policies up to date from provisioning through application and workload lifecycles — simplifying management, automating incident response, and eliminating stale policies.
Spotlight on Network Micro-Segmentation
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Interfaith Medical Center Protects Critical Patient Data
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Hutto Independent School District Embraces Next-Gen Security
Hutto ISD solved its scalability and security challenges by combining vSphere and NSX.
Read the Case StudyMidsize Enterprises: Drive Security While Meeting Compliance Requirements
Leverage a single solution for network virtualization and micro-segmentation.
Download White PaperEnable Zero Trust with Built-In App Security
Leverage your existing virtualization infrastructure to shrink your application attack surface.
Download Tech BriefWhat Are the Key Use Cases for Micro-Segmentation?
Protect Critical Applications
Prevent the spread of threats by blocking lateral movement between applications and workloads with micro-segmentation using NSX. Ensure that policies stay up-to-date automatically as applications evolve, and enable rapid and granular responses to incidents.
Simplify Operations with Deep Visibility
Enable faster iteration on policy definition and incident response with hierarchical application topology maps. Easily drill-down from high-level applications to a detailed context for each workload, including an inventory of every end-point and its traffic flows.
Secure Virtual Desktop Environments
Block lateral movement between VMs by enforcing security policies based on user identity and context, down to the RDSH session level. Eliminate the cost and operational complexity of third-party load balancers, by using software load balancing in NSX to manage VDI traffic.
Rely on DMZs in Software
Create and manage DMZs, application environments, and security zones for compliance entirely in software — reducing the need for additional costly physical appliances and vastly simplifying operations.
Expand Your Virtual Cloud Capabilities
Upgrade to Intrinsic Security
Get the only purpose-built internal firewall to secure east-west network traffic and protect workloads consistently across clouds.
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Connect and protect applications across your data centers and clouds with virtualized networking and security via VMware NSX.
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Simplify operationalizing micro-segmentation with rich application topology visualization and automated policy recommendations.
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Enhance your management of network traffic and security protections with 360 degree visibility across all your environments.
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Learn & Evaluate
- Adaptive Micro-segmentation Tech Brief
- NSX Intelligence Solution Brief
- Context-aware Micro-segmentation with NSX-T 2.4 Blog Post
- Micro-segmentation with NSX and Horizon Virtual Desktops
- NSX Healthcare Solutions Overview: Secure EHR with VMware NSX
- NSX Healthcare Solutions Overview: Secure Endpoint Environments
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