VMware NSX security solutions
With VMware NSX security solutions, your organisation will benefit from better detection and prevention of security threats across your east-west lateral network traffic.
With NSX Security being built into the VMKernel in vSphere, NSX Security is more secure and compliments any existing network security architecture and reduces the threat landscape throughout the data centre, improving security for your workloads, assets, and applications.
In 2023, there was an estimated 317.59 million ransomware attacks globally, proving that utilising modern security solutions should be at the top of your priorities. Use the robust lateral security solution to ensure full protection of your estate and reduce the threat landscape for ransomware with VMware NSX security solutions.
The products within VMware NSX security solutions
There are four products in the NSX framework, allowing you to select the features your organisation will utilise to the fullest.
VMware NSX provides your multi-cloud assets with full protection from cyber threats, enabling you to automate network provisioning that is agile, efficient, and highly secure.
With NSX, traditional network functions are removed from existing hardware and implemented in software, allowing for greater flexibility and control over network resources. This virtualisation layer creates a platform for network automation and simplifies the management of network services.
VMware vDEfend is a robust network security solution designed to revolutionise your network, providing simplicity, cost savings, and visibility.
Operating at the hypervisor level, VMware vDefend enforces security policies at the individual workload level, providing advanced threat detection capabilities, simplifies security operations, and ensures consistent security policies across the entire network infrastructure.
VMware NSX Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a high-level security system designed to protect organisations from advanced threats. Combining multiple detection technologies that complement each other, providing a tailored layer of defence to increase efficiency and visibility.
The detection technologies within NSX ATP include:
- Intrusion Detection/ Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
- Network Sandboxing
- Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)
The features and benefits of NSX security
With the large suite of security products, NSX security solutions have features that support every organisation, with advanced benefits being gained from each product:
Intrusion detection:
gain full coverage and visibility over estate traffic to eliminate blind spots and stop attacks before they start
Traffic analysis:
enable visibility of the deep layers of your estate within the virtualised network to quickly identify unusual activity
Network Sandbox:
with a Full-system Emulation Sandbox, you will spot and action regularly undetected threats
Network Detection and Response:
correlate signals from detection technologies to identify and respond to threats
Network analytics engine:
gain insights into your workloads, network, and data centre with continuous monitoring
VMware NSX security use cases
VMware security solutions offer a versatile set of features that address various use cases within a virtualised and cloud environment. Here are some of the main use cases for VMware NSX:
NSX enables the creation of security zones at the virtual machine level, allowing organisations to implement fine-grained security policies. This prevents lateral movement of threats within the data centre.
NSX enables consistent networking and security policies across on-premises and cloud environments. This ensures a seamless and secure experience when applications are deployed in hybrid or multi-cloud architectures.
NSX allows organisations to replicate network and security configurations across different sites, facilitating quick recovery and maintaining security policies in case of a disaster.
NSX provides network virtualisation capabilities that allow for secure communication between application components, even if they are distributed across different hosts or data centres.
VMware NSX FAQs
VMware NSX takes a software-centric approach to implementing network functions, including switching, routing, firewalling, IDS, IPS, and load balancing in a distributed architecture. NSX intelligence leverages this granular workload and network context to provide data centre-wide visibility, simplified policy compliance analysis, and streamlined security operations.
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