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 datacentre, improving security for your workloads, assets, and applications.

In the first half of 2022, there was an estimated 236.1 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.

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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

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 NSX Distributed Firewall and VMware NSX Gateway Firewall

VMware NSX Distributed Firewall is a robust network security solution designed to revolutionise your network, providing simplicity, cost savings, and visibility.

Operating at the hypervisor level, VMware NSX Distributed Firewall 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 Gateway Firewall compliments Distributed Firewall deployment, enabling security across both on-premise and cloud infrastructure, whether private or public.

VMware NSX Advanced Threat Protection

VMware NSX Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a high-level security system designed to protect organisations from advanced threats. Combining multiple detection technologies that compliment 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

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

Prepare your organisation now 

Are you ready to implement modern solutions to protect your people, assets, and data?

Get in touch with our specialists to explore the potential of VMware NSX Security Solutions.