On the 14th episode of Virtual Stack Podcast, I’m joined by Christoph Buschbeck from VMware and we talk about AppDefense, VMware’s data centre endpoint security solution that embeds threat detection and response into the virtualisation layer. We look into the Enterprise IT Security landscape of today, what’s working well, what can be improved, and why we should be "ensuring good" vs. "chasing bad”.

You can reach out to Christoph via LinkedIn and Twitter (@cbuschbeck).

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Show Notes:

• 01:30 - Intro
• 03:30 - AppDefense in a nutshell
• 06:00 - “Goldilocks” zone and what’s not working well on the current Enterprise IT security approach
• 15:00 - AppDefense architecture
• 29:45 - What’s the “manifest file", how does AppDefense capture the intended state of an app?
• 45:10 - Future of AppDefense, Integration with NSX, Adaptive Micro-segmentation
• 50:00 - Licensing model and how to test AppDefense
• 55:00 - Closing notes

Links:

• Transforming Security in a Cloud and Mobile World (VMworld US 2018 session with a live demo)
• Security, Virtualization, & The Goldilocks Zone - Martin Casado
• vSphere Platinum Solution Overview 
• vSphere Platinum Promotion – free VMware Cloud on AWS credits