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VMware vShield Overview

For organizations that want to leverage the benefits of cloud computing without sacrificing security, control or compliance, the VMware vShield family of security solutions provides comprehensive protection for virtual datacenters and cloud environments.

vShield enables customers to strengthen application and data security, improve visibility and control, and accelerate IT compliance efforts across the organization.

Key Benefits:

- Achieve Better-than-Physical Security: Adaptive security travels with virtual machines as they migrate from host to host providing secure support for virtual machines in dynamic cloud environments. Applications run efficiently while maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data.

- Improve and Simplify Security Management in a Single Framework: A single comprehensive framework secures virtual datacenters and cloud environments at all levels—host, network, application, data and endpoint, in a management framework that integrates with VMware vCenter Server.

- Reduce Complexity and Eliminate Bottlenecks: Reduce the complexity of endpoint, application and edge network security by consolidating your security infrastructure and eliminating the “sprawl” associated with software agents, security policies, dedicated security appliances and “air gapped” solutions with VMware vShield.

- Improve Visibility and Accelerate Compliance: Leverage the unique introspection capabilities of VMware vShield and the VMware vSphere platform to help identify hard-to-detect problems precisely and efficiently while controlling file integrity monitoring, rootkit protection, and data leak prevention.

- Leverage Existing Security Solutions: vShield works seamlessly with existing enterprise IT security measures through REST APIs. Get customized integration of vShield capabilities into third-party security solutions, including existing antivirus and anti-malware solutions.

VMware vShield Family

-  vShield App

-  vShield App protects applications in the virtual datacenter from network-based threats. vShield App gives organizations the ability to create and manage business-relevant policies that adapt to dynamic cloud environments. It also provides deep visibility into network communications between virtual machines and granular enforcement through security groups. Learn More...


-  vShield Edge

-  vShield Edge is a network gateway solution that protects the edges of the virtual datacenter with DCHP, network address translation, firewalling, load balancing, site-to-site VPN, port group isolation and other capabilities that help organizations maintain proper segmentation between different organizational units. Learn More...


-  vShield Endpoint

-  vShield Endpoint provides on-host antivirus and malware protection that reduces performance latency and eliminates the need to maintain individual security agents in each and every virtual machine, helping to simplify security administration while minimizing the risk of malware infections. Learn More...


-  vShield Zones

-  vShield Zones, included with vSphere, provides basic protection from network-based threats in virtual datacenters, with application firewalling and policy management based on administrator-defined zones, using basic traffic information such as the source IP address, the destination port, and so on.    Learn More...