Source: thenewstack.io
VMware Redefines Security After a Surge in AttacksCategory: Business, Security
Enterprise virtualization software giant VMware says it is “redefining” security as it seeks to help customers meet the challenges associated with a skyrocketing number of threats, more numerous attack vectors, and having fewer human resources at their disposal to help keep attacks at bay. So what we’re asking all of these IT security teams to do is essentially to do more — and there’s a lot more complexity,” Patrick Morley, senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s security business unit, said during a press conference. What we’re asking all of these IT security teams to do is essentially to do more with not a lot of increase in personnel, which is a real challenge.”VMware recently released a study that quantified these security trends, prompted largely by how organizations have struggled to accommodate a surge in remote workers during the pandemic.
One of the things we understand very well about security, is that no matter what you do with the perimeter, somehow, someway, the bad guys are going to get it. Whether it’s an exotic attack, like SolarWinds — which is one of the most cleverly designed attacks I’ve seen in my career — or a more pedestrian situation where ‘oops, I’ve got a version of [Apache] that’s unpatched,’ which is what happened during a high-profile breaches at a credit rating agency,” Tom Gillis, senior vice president, VMware network and security business unit, said.
NSX can read Layer 7 traffic by “speaking the language of the application or looking at it in a ‘flow basis in order to say ‘you know what, this is a real flow, and we recognize that we want to be able to understand the context of what’s happening in the network and actually read the content,’ which we think is really, really significant,” Gillis explained.At the same time, despite the rising level of sophistication in attacks, ransomware breaches are more preventable than other attacks, Paul Green, chief development officer for medical transport services provider Angel MedFlight, said.
One of the things we understand very well about security, is that no matter what you do with the perimeter, somehow, someway, the bad guys are going to get it. Whether it’s an exotic attack, like SolarWinds — which is one of the most cleverly designed attacks I’ve seen in my career — or a more pedestrian situation where ‘oops, I’ve got a version of [Apache] that’s unpatched,’ which is what happened during a high-profile breaches at a credit rating agency,” Tom Gillis, senior vice president, VMware network and security business unit, said.
NSX can read Layer 7 traffic by “speaking the language of the application or looking at it in a ‘flow basis in order to say ‘you know what, this is a real flow, and we recognize that we want to be able to understand the context of what’s happening in the network and actually read the content,’ which we think is really, really significant,” Gillis explained.At the same time, despite the rising level of sophistication in attacks, ransomware breaches are more preventable than other attacks, Paul Green, chief development officer for medical transport services provider Angel MedFlight, said.
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