On the occasion of VMware Explore 2024which is being held in Barcelona, Broadcom presented some news relating to cybersecurity. Specifically, VMware vDefend has been enhanced with new generative artificial intelligence features, while VMware Avi Load Balancer has been optimized to offer better performance.
VMware vDefend: Cybersecurity powered by GenAI
VMware vDefend has been updated and now includes Intelligent Assista virtual assistant from GenAI that can accelerate the detection, analysis and management of cyber threats. IT teams will be able to query it in natural language. According to the company, “qThis new feature “simplifies how virtualization, network security, and SOC teams understand detailed, contextual information about active threats and their impact. With just a few clicks, teams can initiate remediation, streamlining processes they once required complex workflows across multiple point products. By democratizing threat response, Intelligent Assist for vDefend enables security and infrastructure teams to operate much more collaboratively.“.
The AI assistant is not the only new feature of VMware vDefend, which can count on two other updates. Among these the support for custom DS/IPS signatures. which allows you to import your own custom IDS/IPS signatures or those from third-party threat feeds, enabling tailored defenses against industry-specific attacks.
Malware Analysis Test Driveon the other hand, is a feature that allows you to upload content (files or URLs) for in-depth analysis, thus obtaining crucial information on highly evasive malware and zero-day threats.
The new features of VMware Avi Load Balancer
The VMware Avi Load Balancer load balancing solution has also been enhanced, which now includes the following features:
- support for large-scale deployments: Capacity increased approximately 2x to support enterprise workloads and over 3x to improve SSL performance.
- Improved application resiliency with HA and Multi-AZ support: For more robust and granular fault management, Avi Load Balancer supports multiple availability zones (Multi-AZ) for both VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) deployments.
- Enhanced API Gateway support for Kubernetes: Avi Load Balancer is now fully integrated with the Tanzu platform for Kubernetes. This integration leverages the next-generation Gateway API for ingress, provides world-class observability and analytics, and integrates Avi GSLB for multi-cluster and multi-site support.
- Accelerated migration from legacy load balancers: The conversion tool for Avi Load Balancer is now generally available to customers.
- Dry Run functionality: The Dry Run Avi Controllers feature allows companies to test updates in an isolated, risk-free environment, ensuring everything is working properly before going into production.
Source: edge9.hwupgrade.it
