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VMware vDefend: Accelerate Enterprise’s Zero Trust Private Cloud Journey with Micro-segmentation and NDR Innovations

By Michelle Plato
vDefend Release Announcement by Prashant Gandhi March 26, 2025 New enhancements include: Micro-segmentation Assessment, Air-gapped NDR, and Scale-out Data Lake Platform (Security Services Platform 5.0) For decades, enterprises have relied ...
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SE Labs awards VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention “AAA” Rating!

By Michelle Plato
by Stijn Vanveerdeghem February 25, 2025 Complex, multi-staged ransomware attacks are top of mind for organizations across all industries. VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention has won the AAA award from SE labs in the Advanced Security test, ...
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Introducing Lateral Security for VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware vDefend Validated Solution

By Michelle Plato
by Nikodim Nikodimov February 6, 2025 At Broadcom, we are committed to providing cutting-edge security solutions to empower VMware Cloud Foundation customers with cyber-resilient private cloud. We are excited to announce the general ...
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Getting Started with VMware vDefend Automation: Part 1 by Andrew Hrycaj

By Michelle Plato
Introduction: VMware vDefend objects can be created in both the UI and API. The vDefend API can be interacted with using tools like Postman, cURL, and Terraform along with scripting languages like Python and Golang. In this guide, we will be using ...
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Introducing Intelligent Assist for vDefend: Turbocharge Threat Defense with GenAI-Driven Intelligence

By Michelle Plato
Announcement: Over the past year, our team has been hard at work on an initiative known as Project Cypress. The result is Intelligent Assist for vDefend, powered by GenAI and LLM. This new capability simplifies the way virtualization, network security, ...
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VMware vDefend: Latest Enhancements in Advanced Threat Prevention

By Michelle Plato
We are excited to unveil new vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention enhancements with the VCF 5.2.1 release: IDS/IPS Custom Signature Support: For our distributed and hypervisor-integrated IDS/IPS offering, customers can now import their own custom ...
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Securing private cloud and enabling rapid application deployment for the digital enterprise

By Michelle Plato
VMware has established itself as a pioneer and global leader in the private cloud market with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). As applications are on-boarded on VCF, lateral security becomes paramount to prevent breaches and ransomware attacks. Read more ...
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VMware vDefend – Defending Corporate Crown Jewels Against Unrelenting Cyber Attacks

By Michelle Plato
Protecting enterprise crown jewels—applications and data requires an architectural approach. This blog highlights how VMware vDefend architecture and product portfolio delivers enterprises’ tactical needs to defend against relentless cyber attacks while ...
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VMware vDefend Security Sessions at VMware Explore Barcelona 2024

By Michelle Plato
vDefend is at the forefront of protecting your private cloud from ransomware and other threats with advanced security capabilities such as distributed firewall, gateway firewall, advanced threat prevention, security intelligence, and more. At VMware Explore ...
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VMware vDefend Innovations: Elevating Enterprise Lateral Threat Defense for the GenAI Era

By Michelle Plato
Read about the latest vDefend innovations, which focus on GenAI assist for threat defense, greater performance, assessment, and deployment flexibility for malware and ransomware prevention, VCF 9 integrations, and zero-trust lateral security enhancements. ...
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VMware vDefend Lateral Security: New Innovations to Strengthen Enterprise Ransomware Defense

By Michelle Plato
This blog by Head of Products Prashant Gandhi details the latest vDefend enhancements, including a a significant increase in scale, simplified Distributed Firewall operations, enhanced NDR threat defense, and streamlined Security Intelligence capacity ...
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Workload-Aware Network Security

By Michelle Plato
Threat actors move stealthily through an enterprise network and try to blend their activity into regular background traffic. The only way to reliably distinguish between suspicious – but ultimately benign – network activity and true attacks is to add ...
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Securing Virtual Infrastructure and Zones with vDefend Distributed Firewall

By Michelle Plato
As network/security professionals, it is critical to protect east/west network traffic with more than perimeter firewalls. It is essential to protect everything - from common services to business-critical applications. Read more about the multiple ways ...
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