Your Workloads are More Secure with VMware

Protect the Inner Workings of the Application
Understand the inner workings of your traditional and modern applications, so you can see all connections and conversations, detect anomalous behavior, and secure apps from within.

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Get visibility into every packet and every process for unparalleled workload and network context that reduces false positives for superior threat detection and faster remediation.

Automate the Cloud with Security as Code
Deliver security as code to streamline operations for consistent security across clouds with an API-driven, object-based model that automates policy mobility and ensures new workloads inherit policies.
Security Beyond the Perimeter and Endpoint
Software-Defined Firewalling
Easily deploy network and micro-segmentation using the industry's only Layer 7 distributed firewall and protect physical workloads in private clouds with a gateway firewall for consistent security across your infrastructure.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Eliminate blind spots and get absolute coverage for all network traffic to detect and prevent known threats from gaining access to critical systems and data – without the expensive appliances.
Network Traffic Analysis
Accelerate threat remediation by developing a baseline of network behavior using ML algorithms and then using this baseline to quickly identify protocol, traffic and host anomalies as they appear.
Network Sandbox
Detect malware that other technologies miss with a Full-system Emulation Sandbox that provides a complete malware analysis system to analyze advanced threats.
Network Detection and Response
Quickly triage threat campaigns by automatically correlating signals from IDS/IPS, Network Sandbox and NTA and mapping threat activities to MITRE ATT&CK with relevant authoritative context.
Distributed Network Analytics Engine
Combine deep workload and network context with data center-wide visibility for automated security policy recommendations, detailed application topology visualization, continuous monitoring of every flow, and an audit trail of security policies.
NSX Network Security Products
VMware NSX
Full-stack network and security virtualization
VMware NSX Gateway Firewall
A Layer 7 firewall designed to protect physical servers and zone/cloud edge
VMware NSX Distributed Firewall
Layer 7 internal firewall to secure east-west traffic and cloud-to-cloud connectivity
VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention
Complete network traffic inspection and the industry’s highest fidelity insights into advanced threats
The inherent security on the NSX platform allows our developers and security experts to work together from the get-go, weaving cybersecurity into the very DNA of the network.
NSX has simplified the ability for us to segment those servers off into their own environment ... without having to make vast hardware purchases and additional firewalls and technologies.
We test NDR products privately and regularly, and have not awarded any other products a AAA rating.
Related Resources
Industry’s First NDR Test
Workloads on the VMware multi-cloud platform are the only ones protected against APTs by the NSX NDR solution that is AAA certified by SE Labs.
Network & Micro-segmentation Solutions
Secure critical workloads and environments with stateful Layer 7 controls, granular micro-segmentation protection, and simplified management.
Strengthen Ransomware Protection
Get comprehensive ransomware protection that’s built into the virtualization layer (vSphere) across five cybersecurity functions — Identify Risk, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.