Today's threat actors, more sophisticated than ever, are turning to Gen AI, zero-day exploits, and advanced ransomware - alongside known vulnerabilities - to bypass traditional security and infiltrate your private cloud. Once they've breached the perimeter, they'll strive to move throughout the infrastructure, making east-west a key battleground. With a software-defined Layer 7 solution combining distributed and gateway firewalling capabilities, you can enforce granular, context-aware policies for every workload and easily segment the network to stop threats from spreading laterally. VMware vDefend Firewall provides visibility into and control over a much greater percentage of east-west traffic, securing 11 times more of your network flows. Accelerate your Zero Trust journey with a modern, distributed solution purpose-built to secure traffic in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud.
VMware vDefend Firewall is a software-defined L7 firewall designed to secure traffic across physical and virtual workloads. A single solution comprises VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall and VMware vDefend Gateway Firewall capabilities to deliver consistent protection into the hypervisor and across workloads running on physical servers. Stateful firewalling and complete visibility into all applications and flows give you superior security with policy automation linked to the workload lifecycle. Unlike traditional firewalls requiring network redesign and traffic hair-pinning, VMware vDefend distributes firewalling capabilities to each host, radically simplifying the security architecture. This is a much more straightforward operational model, making it easier for security teams to secure the infrastructure, create virtual zones, and protect critical applications.
