VMware by Broadcom: VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention for Threat Detection and Response

Additional Info

CompanyVMware by Broadcom
Websitehttps://www.vmware.com
Company size (employees)10,000 or more
Headquarters RegionNorth America

Overview

VMware vDefend Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) is a cutting-edge, AI/ML-driven solution that safeguards private cloud workloads against ransomware and advanced cyber threats.
Combining Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA), and Malware Prevention services with multi-context Network Detection and Response (NDR), vDefend delivers unparalleled visibility, detection, and response capabilities for north-south and east-west traffic.

Key innovations include its Generative AI-powered Intelligent Assist, which accelerates threat triage and remediation by automating analysis and delivering contextual explanations. With hypervisor-integrated guest introspection, vDefend provides complete visibility into VM workloads and encrypted files, ensuring even legacy systems without endpoint coverage remain protected.

The solution scales seamlessly within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), enabling organizations to deploy robust security defenses across thousands of workloads without operational disruption. vDefend’s proactive approach has been instrumental in protecting enterprises in critical industries such as finance, healthcare, and government, reducing detection times, and preventing lateral threat movement.

Key Capabilities / Features

- Generative AI-Powered Intelligent Assist: Simplifies SOC operations with natural-language explanations of attack chains, automated alert correlation, and recommended remediation strategies. This reduces manual effort and improves operational efficiency.
- Hypervisor-Level Threat Visibility: vDefend’s distributed architecture delivers comprehensive visibility across every workload on every host, eliminating blind spots. Its hypervisor-level integration delivers advanced features such as guest introspection and provides unmatched visibility into VM activity, file systems, and encrypted files, enabling detection of even the most sophisticated threats. Advanced NDR and Ransomware Recovery: Aggregates signals from IDS/IPS, NTA, and malware prevention to create high-fidelity threat campaigns mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. VMware Live Recovery ensures swift restoration of operations following a ransomware attack, minimizing damage and downtime.
- Compliance and Scalability: Supports compliance mandates (e.g., PCI, HIPAA) and scales effortlessly across thousands of workloads within VMware Cloud Foundation. This ensures consistent, enterprise-wide protection for industries like finance, healthcare, and government.


How we are different

- Comprehensive Threat Defense: VMware vDefend unifies IDS/IPS, NTA, and malware prevention with AI/ML-powered analytics into a single platform. This multi-layered defense-in-depth approach detects advanced threats like zero-day malware while significantly reducing false positives. The integrated NDR correlates data from multiple sources, enriching threat insights and enabling faster remediation.
- Proven ROI and Industry Impact: Organizations report 54% lower three-year operational costs, 610% ROI, and a six-month payback period, making vDefend one of the most cost-effective advanced threat prevention solutions on the market. It has protected financial institutions, healthcare providers, and government agencies from ransomware and lateral attacks while improving efficiency in SOC workflows.
- Tailored, Scalable Protections: vDefend’s ability to deploy custom IDS/IPS signatures ensures protection against industry-specific threats, such as SCADA attacks in critical infrastructure or ransomware in healthcare. Its hypervisor-level security and integration with VMware Cloud Foundation ensure seamless scalability across thousands of workloads, including legacy systems.


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