{"id":49214,"date":"2022-11-08T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3679435\/vmware-adds-more-security-for-diverse-cloud-workloads.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2022-11-08T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:17:00","slug":"vmware-adds-more-security-for-diverse-cloud-workloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/vmware-adds-more-security-for-diverse-cloud-workloads\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware adds more security for diverse cloud workloads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VMware has added more security features to its forthcoming on-demand multi-cloud networking and security service called Northstar that it previewed during its August VMware Explore 2022<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n

VMware said then that Northstar will provide a central console for turning up networking and security services across private clouds and VMware Cloud deployments that run on public clouds. It will include VMware services such as Network Detection and Response, NSX Intelligence, advanced load balancing and Web Application Firewall. Within Northstar, Network Detection and Response support will provide scalable threat detection and response for workloads deployed in private and\/or public clouds.<\/p>\n

The company this week said it is adding support for its Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) software. The extension, known as HCX+, will let customers move workloads between multiple on-premises environments as well as VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe role of HDX+ is to facilitate workload migration, and within Northstar that will let customers, for example, move workloads from thousands of VMs in their private cloud to a public cloud,\u201d said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager at VMware. \u201cAnd since we can look into the application layer of all these workloads we can apply unique security analytics that can identify the East-West or the collateral or movement of an attack. These days, that’s the name of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

 \u201cBecause we’re constantly changing and updating the algorithms, security and policy are always up-to-date, and since we\u2019ll be seeing everybody’s traffic we can do global correlation across the entire spectrum of workloads regardless of where they are running,\u201d Gillis said.<\/p>\n

Northstar is expected to launch possibly next spring.<\/p>\n