Modern cyberattacks have long since breached the classic perimeter. Once an attacker penetrates the corporate network, they move laterally and covertly to locate high-value assets for ransom or data exfiltration. As attackers increasingly leverage artificial intelligence to automate their operations, traditional firewalls are no longer enough. Today, the Zero Trust concept is an essential standard for robust corporate IT infrastructure protection.

Hypervisor-level protection with VMware vDefend

VMware vDefend is a comprehensive Zero Trust security solution designed specifically to protect all workloads within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private clouds, including virtual machines, Kubernetes containers, agentic AI workloads, and bare-metal servers. The main differentiator of this software-defined solution lies in its distributed architecture: it operates directly at the hypervisor level, completely eliminating security blind spots across the IT infrastructure.

The VMware vDefend platform combines threat prevention, detection, and mitigation features into a single closed-loop private cloud security system.

Comparison of network security approaches

Traditional perimeter defense

• Security focus: Monitoring exclusively the external boundaries of the corporate network.
• Vulnerability to attacks: Once the perimeter is breached, an attacker can freely move laterally (east-west traffic).
• Network impact: Excessive load on communication channels and bottlenecks due to constant internal traffic redirection (hairpinning).

Lateral security with VMware vDefend

• Security focus: Complete protection of horizontal traffic directly at the workload level.
• Vulnerability to attacks: Full containment of lateral threat propagation and ransomware through microsegmentation.
• Network impact: High performance and scalability without changing the physical network architecture.

Key capabilities for business protection

The solution offers IT departments a powerful technology stack to comprehensively counter advanced persistent threats (APTs) and ransomware:

• Deep traffic visibility: Analysis of network and application activity from Layer 4 to Layer 7 with clear context on processes, users, and applications.
• Multi-layered threat prevention: Integrated services of distributed IDS/IPS, behavior-based Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), and Malware Prevention Services (MPS) enable detection of fileless and zero-day threats.
• Smart policy orchestration: Ability to create security policies before workloads are actually deployed and automatically maintain their relevance throughout the entire IT system lifecycle.
• GenAI-powered threat investigation: The Network Detection and Response (NDR) module aggregates security signals, maps them to MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and provides a user-friendly conversational interface based on generative AI for rapid SOC team response.
• Virtual patching: Proactive protection of vulnerable systems using a distributed intrusion detection system gives administrators time to plan and deploy software updates without the risk of compromise.

Why choose Softprom

The company Softprom is an official distributor of VMware by Broadcom solutions. Our certified technical specialists help enterprises reduce IT infrastructure operational complexity, eliminate fragmented legacy point security systems, and successfully build a resilient Zero Trust model.