VMware vShield Management Products

For organisations that want to leverage the benefits of cloud computing without sacrificing security, control or compliance, the VMware vShield family of security solutions provides comprehensive protection for virtual data centres and cloud environments. vShield enables customers to strengthen application and data security, improve visibility and control, and accelerate IT compliance efforts across the organisation.

The vShield product family consists of vShield Edge, vShield App, and vShield Endpoint. vShield Manager 4.1 is the central point of management, deployment, reporting, logging, and integration services with third-party solutions. vShield Zones provides basic protection from network-based threats and is included with vSphere.

VMware vShield App

VMware vShield App protects applications in the virtual data centre from network-based threats. vShield App gives organisations the ability to create and manage business-relevant policies that adapt to dynamic cloud environments. It also provides deep visibility into network communications between virtual machines and granular enforcement through security groups.

VMware vShield Edge

VMware vShield Edge is a network gateway solution that protects the edges of the virtual data centre with DCHP, network address translation, firewalling, load balancing, site-to-site VPN, port group isolation and other capabilities that help organisations maintain proper segmentation between different organisational units

VMware vShield Endpoint

VMware vShield Endpoint provides on-host antivirus and malware protection that reduces performance latency and eliminates the need to maintain individual security agents in each and every virtual machine, helping to simplify security administration while minimising the risk of malware infections.

VMware vShield Zones

VMware vShield Zones is included with vSphere and provides basic protection from network-based threats in virtual data centres, with application firewalling and policy management based on administrator-defined zones, using basic traffic information such as the source IP address, the destination port, and so on. For more granular security policies, upgrade to vShield App.

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For more information, contact your Phoenix Account Manager on 0845 265 1265 or email info@phoenixs.co.uk