VMware AppDefense
Discover A New Approach to Workload Protection
Improve the security of your applications from within the hypervisor — and get 360 degree visibility into every workload — with VMware AppDefense. Rather than chasing after threats, reduce your attack surface by leveraging AppDefense to model intended application behavior, monitor for anomalous activity, and provide application control, reputation scoring, and security.
Deploy Hypervisor-Native Workload Protection with AppDefense
Deploy Hypervisor-Native Workload Protection
Protect your apps and data with the only security approach that’s intrinsic to your virtualization infrastructure.
Test Drive vSphere Platinum with AppDefense
Test Drive vSphere Platinum with AppDefense
Discover the world’s most secure leading hypervisor with AppDefense
Deploy Powerful Workload Protection Easily
Get 360 Visibility into Every Workload
Ensure the integrity of the OS/hypervisor, from a unique vantage point within the hypervisor itself. Verify the reputation of every executable, understand all process-process communications on the network, and highlight any software vulnerabilities.
Achieve Operational Simplicity
Avoid installing and managing additional host agents. AppDefense is embedded within the hypervisor, providing a simple 1-click deployment model to every host — and the ability to manage directly from the familiar vSphere client.
Isolate Controls from the Attack Surface
"Root can’t defend against root” — an adversary on a compromised workload can easily disable traditional endpoint protection agents. In contrast, AppDefense, a module inside the vSphere hypervisor, operates as a “super-root”, isolating it from the attack surface.
How AppDefense Works
Inspect every process, every communication, every software
Build a model of “known-good” app behavior
Learn from the collective knowledge of 1000s of customers
Enforce known good behavior for each workload
Spotlight on Application Security
How Your VMware Infrastructure Can Turn the Tide in Cybersecurity
How Your VMware Infrastructure Can Turn the Tide in Cybersecurity
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Accelerate Security Operations
Streamline security reviews by enabling infrastructure and security teams to collaborate from a single pane of glass. Visualize topology maps for every application and VM in your environment, and drill-down to see detailed workload context — roles, meta-data, process, and network activity.
Assure Every Workload
Enable application control and whitelisting — and patch risky software sooner — by continuously scanning workloads to highlight vulnerabilities in the OS, hypervisor, or application software. Ensure OS integrity, and provide reputation scores for every process.
Protect Critical Workloads
Shield crown jewel applications running inside micro-segments - such as shared services, domain controllers, and critical assets - by modeling “known good” behavior and by providing fewer and more authoritative alerts for anomalous behavior.
Enhance Micro-Segmentation Effectiveness
Provide additional workload context to NSX to assist in the definition of micro-segments, and enable faster and more granular responses to risky workload behavior, by pushing into NSX policies for actions such as quarantining, activity logging, etc.
We’re Powering Our Customers’ Success
Why AppDefense is the Next Big Thing
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Ceridian leveraged a Virtual Cloud Network with AppDefense to meet current network and data security needs and provide for future growth.
Expand Your Virtual Cloud Capabilities
Deliver Protection Across Clouds
Secure east-west network traffic and protect workloads across multi-cloud environments with a purpose-built internal firewall.
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