Meet the VMware Service-defined Firewall: A new approach to firewalling
VMware has had front row seats to the digital transformation that has touched virtually every organization. We’ve been there (and helped drive!) the journey from monolithic applications hosted on a single server, to distributed apps running in VMs, to further decentralization in the form of cloud-native apps composed of microservices. Now, we’re watching the proliferation of public clouds, the up and coming space of serverless and the adoption of functions as a service as ways to build and deploy applications faster than ever.
It’s this vantage point that also gives us clear line of sight to one of the biggest cyber security challenges that modern enterprises face: as their applications become more distributed, an organization’s attack surface significantly increases. Despite all of the advancements and innovation in the way applications are built, we have not seen the same rate of progress with respect to the way applications are secured. Adopting a zero-trust network security model in an enterprise environment remains incredibly hard to achieve. How do you know what security policies to create? How do you enforce those policies consistently across on-premises physical and virtual environments, let alone the public cloud? How do you enforce them across different Continue reading