{"id":58108,"date":"2025-04-23T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/?p=58108"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:33","slug":"broadcom-vmware-vdefend-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/broadcom-vmware-vdefend-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom VMware vDefend Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 26, 2025, <strong>enhancements to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/omnissa-the-former-vmware-end-user-computing-business\/\">VMware<\/a> vDefend<\/strong> were made that <strong>enhances private cloud lateral security against advanced threats and ransomware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2025\/04\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2025-04-23-Update-Website-Broadcom-VMware-vDefend-Innovations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2025\/04\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2025-04-23-Update-Website-Broadcom-VMware-vDefend-Innovations.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2025\/04\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2025-04-23-Update-Website-Broadcom-VMware-vDefend-Innovations-500x249.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2025\/04\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2025-04-23-Update-Website-Broadcom-VMware-vDefend-Innovations-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/media\/2025\/04\/SCHNEIDER-IT-MANAGEMENT-2025-04-23-Update-Website-Broadcom-VMware-vDefend-Innovations-768x383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>VMware vDefend<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Available as an add-on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-portfolio-offerings-enhancements\/\">VMware Cloud Foundation<\/a><\/strong> (VCF), <strong>VMware vDefend<\/strong> helps organizations <strong>achieve zero trust security<\/strong> by offering features such as <strong>micro-segmentation, real-time security assessments, and advanced threat prevention<\/strong>. It includes features like the VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall, VMware vDefend Gateway Firewall, and VMware Container Security with Antrea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Features in vDefend<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New VMware vDefend enhancements include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Security Segmentation Assessment and Report<\/strong>: <strong>Part of the<\/strong> <strong>Security Intelligence<\/strong> tool, this feature provides <strong>real-time insights into an organization&#8217;s security segmentation posture<\/strong>. It helps implement zero trust private cloud initiatives by <strong>analyzing application traffic<\/strong>, <strong>identifying security gaps<\/strong>, and <strong>offering actionable policy recommendations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Updates to Security Services Platform (SSP)<\/strong>: The <strong>new SSP architecture simplifies deployment of Security Intelligence<\/strong> and <strong>advanced threat prevention tools<\/strong>. It streamlines lifecycle management, user experience, and configuration workflows, ensuring visibility and threat prevention extend to large-scale <strong>VMware Cloud Foundation<\/strong> (VCF) deployments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Micro-segmentation as Code<\/strong>: This <strong>feature in vDefend Distributed Firewall optimizes micro-segmentation by applying security during the application deployment process<\/strong>. It uses an <strong>API-driven model<\/strong> to integrate with automation frameworks, ensuring consistent lateral security protection across virtual machines and container workload.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network Detection and Response (NDR) for Air-Gapped Environments<\/strong>: <strong>Enhances NDR capabilities<\/strong> by <strong>supporting secure updates of threat intelligence without external network access<\/strong>. This is crucial for high-security environments, providing an additional layer of protection against targeted attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Announcement: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/company\/news\/product-releases\/62991\">https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/company\/news\/product-releases\/62991<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Questions about VMware licensing?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Find more info in our <strong>licensing article<\/strong> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/vmware-by-broadcom-portfolio-simplification-and-transition-to-subscription\/\">VMware by Broadcom<\/a> article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-portfolio-offerings-enhancements\/\">https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/vmware-cloud-foundation-vcf-portfolio-offerings-enhancements\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/contact\/\"><strong>Get in touch<\/strong><\/a><strong> to get help by VMware experts to optimize your licensing and save costs on licenses today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 26, 2025, enhancements to VMware vDefend were made that enhances private cloud lateral security against advanced threats and ransomware. &nbsp; VMware vDefend Available as an add-on to VMware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":47363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcom","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58114,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58108\/revisions\/58114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schneider.systems\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}