Today at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc. announced its VMware Future-Ready Workforce solutions. These new solutions are designed to provide exceptional workforce experiences, end-to-end Zero Trust security controls, and simplified management. The new solutions include a combination of what VMware is calling the industry-leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Digital Workspace and Endpoint Security capabilities. IT teams leveraging the solution will be able to give its workforce a simple, high-performing, and secure experience to any app, on any cloud, regardless of the device used.
Today at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc. announced its VMware Future-Ready Workforce solutions. These new solutions are designed to provide exceptional workforce experiences, end-to-end Zero Trust security controls, and simplified management. The new solutions include a combination of what VMware is calling the industry-leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Digital Workspace and Endpoint Security capabilities. IT teams leveraging the solution will be able to give its workforce a simple, high-performing, and secure experience to any app, on any cloud, regardless of the device used.
While the distributed workforce was already expanding in the last few years, with both multi-site locations and remote/home working, the Covid-19 pandemic has super charged this expansion. Not only are more people than ever working remotely throughout the world, there are several companies that are looking to extend this for months if not years. With all the rapid changes to how work it down, the legacy networking and security that has been used up to now needs to be shaken up.
To get over the hurdles of the past, organizations are going to need to leverage more automation as well as the scale of the cloud and better security to protect not only the data, but the apps used and the users that are spread out everywhere. For this, VMWare’s SASE platform is said to converge cloud networking, cloud security and Zero Trust network access with best in class web security to deliver flexibility, agility, and scalability for enterprises of all sizes. As several companies now have a work from anywhere, the SASE is a simple to use way to deliver application quality assurance and intrinsic security.
Other aspects of VMware SASE Platform include:
As stated, more people are working from home with a large chunk saying that the ability to work from home is now a prerequisite for the consideration of a job. Working from home can have several benefits, include an extra layer of safety for employees avoid possible infection. However, it isn’t as easy for companies to hand out a laptop or a thin client and say, go work from home. There are several challenges such as remote employee on-boarding, visibility and compliance, security, employee safety, and more. To address this VMware is expanding its Workspace ONE and Workspace Security offerings. The new offerings include the following:
While the above covers security and access for the users, what they are using all the devices on (private and public clouds) also need better security. Not to just point out that cloud security is important for distributed/remote working, many companies are also transitioning more to the cloud and developing apps in the cloud that need security. To address this, VMware introduced VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload. The company states that this new solution delivers advanced protection purpose-built for securing modern workloads to reduce the attack surface and strengthen security posture. The solution looks at prioritized vulnerability reporting and combines it with foundational workload hardening with industry-leading prevention, detection and response capabilities to protect workloads running in virtualized, private and hybrid cloud environments.
VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload will be available as a six-month unlimited free trail for all available for all current vSphere 6.5 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 customers. The solution combines the security expertise of both companies (Carbon Black was its own company before the acquisition). The new solution will be tightly integrated with vSphere and provide agentless security that alleviates installation and management overhead and consolidates the collection of telemetry for multiple workload security use cases. Now IT can automatically secure new workloads (or existing) at every point in the security lifecycle. VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload can tackle the complexity of security in a hybrid data center where physical, on-premises machines to multiple public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environment to container-based application architectures all need to be secured.
VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload also offers:
In the future, VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload is looking to include Carbon Black Cloud module for hardening and securing Kubernetes workloads.
The final security-related announcement from today, touched on above, is VMware and Zscaler introducing new integrations end-to-end visibility and protection for distributed workforces. The integrations will be one-click and are said to enable joint customers to stop zero-day threats from impacting endpoints and enable true zero trust conditional access to internal applications.
Availability
VMware Future-Ready Workspace Security Remote and VMware Workspace Security VDI are available now. VMware Edge Network Intelligence is expected to be available in VMware’s Fiscal Q3 FY21, which ends on October 30, 2020. BYOD capabilities for VMware Secure Access are expected to be available in Q4 FY21, which ends on January 30, 2021. VMware Cloud Web Security is expected to be available in VMware’s Fiscal Q1 FY22, and NSX Firewall as a Service for the VMware SASE Platform is expected to be available in FY22. VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload is expected to be available in November 2020. The Carbon Black Cloud module for hardening and securing Kubernetes workloads is expected to be available in December 2020.
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