Intrinsic Security
Protect Your Apps and Data with Intrinsic Security
Leverage your infrastructure to provide adaptive protection for your apps and data, regardless of their location or movement, and seamlessly secure your data centers, clouds, and endpoints so your users have the flexibility and freedom to work as they wish.
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Leverage Your Infrastructure to Secure Your Business
Build security into your infrastructure to turn points of vulnerability into points of security control. More effectively detect and respond to threats and expand visibility and controls to harden infrastructure and keep emerging threats at bay. VMware Intrinsic Security dramatically simplifies and strengthens your approach to security across any app, any cloud, and any device.
Secure east-west network traffic through segmentation, access, and traffic inspection.
Virtualize your entire security stack and gain protection that's intrinsic to your infrastructure— so you can mitigate risk, ensure compliance, and lower costs while vastly simplifying the operational model of firewalling every workload.
Mitigate public cloud security and compliance risks.
Get real-time insight into cloud resources, misconfigurations, threats, and change activity. Graphically visualize resource relationships and investigate issues. Prioritize findings based on risk, automatically remediate issues, and collaborate with developers.
Protect workloads from advanced threats through embedded security in the hypervisor.
Improve application security without compromising availability and performance with automated threat monitoring and response to changes in app behavior.
Secure the endpoint through intelligent system hardening and adaptive prevention.
Consolidate multiple endpoint security capabilities, simplifying your security stack for faster and more effective security operations, and improving endpoint performance.
Harden device posture and user authentication with device-aware access management.
Ensure only the right users and compliant devices have access to apps by continuously tracking device state, user details, and authentication context.
What is Intrinsic Security?
Simplify and Focus Your Security Strategy
Organizations traditionally build infrastructure for general purpose use. Security teams are then tasked with protecting that infrastructure, the apps that will run on it, and the devices that will access it. The result is layers of complexity and enterprise security that's general rather than specific— too many products, too many tools, too many interfaces, too many agents. Security doesn’t need a new product, but a new approach.
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Security Needs to be Built-in, not Bolted-on
Bolting on security means too many products, agents, and policy sets.
Build security into your infrastructure for an intrinsic security solution that helps you operate faster and more effectively, without relying on additional products, agents, interfaces, tools, or management overhead. Gain the context and visibility to better control security policies across heterogenous environments for protection that adapts to your business.
Unified, not Siloed
Security has been siloed for far too long, making it difficult to get a holistic view of threats and what you're trying to protect.
Security needs to be a team sport. Leveraging your infrastructure for security not only increases visibility into workloads and connectivity, but also fosters integrated defenses and active collaboration across IT and Security teams to keep emerging threats at bay.
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Context-centric, not Threat-centric
Security has become centered around chasing threats and not understanding enough about the applications and infrastructure – what needs to be protected in the first place. And that has made security too reactive and too focused on yesterday's attacks.
Architecting security into your infrastructure unlocks unprecedented visibility across apps, users and devices and allows you to focus your defenses, instead of reactively chasing an ever-growing spectrum of threats.
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User, Application & Endpoint Security for Your Digital Workspace
Deliver predictive and automated security for users, apps and endpoints across your digital workspace with a modern, cloud-native enterprise security platform.
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Protect workloads across your multi-cloud environments with network security policies specific to every application. Leverage the industry’s first purpose-built distributed firewall to secure and inspect east-west network traffic with consistent policy and fine grain control.
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Embed threat detection and response into the virtualization layer, giving you greater visibility and intelligence into your applications, data, and infrastructure to proactively protect against breaches.
More on Workload SecurityMitigate Public Cloud Risk
Strengthen security and compliance posture across your public cloud environments. Gain real-time visibility into security configurations and threats to keep pace with the dynamic nature of cloud and avoid risky misconfigurations known to cause security breaches.
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Achieve better security and compliance in regulated industries with VMware products and solutions.
Financial Services
Reduce risk and streamline compliance with industry-leading hybrid cloud, SDDC, and digital workspace solutions.
State & Local Government
Address compliance, identity management, threat detection, and remediation across devices, apps, and networks.
Healthcare
Streamline security and compliance by delivering always-available access to electronic medical records.
Higher Education
Support limitless learning with modern, mobile, and secure IT solutions.
Education
Secure today’s digital classrooms with software-defined server, desktop, networking, and identity-based security solutions.
Federal Government
Take a software-defined approach to security that maximizes visibility, context, and control of interactions between users, apps, and data.
Manufacturing
Safely embrace IoT, deliver 24/7 uptime, and secure the delivery of data and applications globally.
Retail
Strengthen cybersecurity across retail platforms while helping to ensure PCI compliance.
Access VMware Security Advisories
VMware maintains various programs and practices to ensure that security is standardized through all facets of our products and cloud services. To see a list of reported vulnerabilities, or sign up to receive advisories via email, visit the VMware Security Advisories page.