A few days ago, VMWare announced a solution with Intel/McAfee for additional security. McAfee Network Security Platform (NSP) service will be providing Intrusion Prevension Services (IPS) for their data center. McAfee was acquired by Intel Security. It wasn’t clear from the press release how virtual firmware is impacted with this new security service.
“This collaboration between VMware and Intel Security delivers clear value for our mutual customers, enabling them to have consistently high levels of threat protection for traffic both inside the data center and at the data center perimeter. The tight integration between VMware NSX and Intel Security’s McAfee NSP means security controls follow application workloads, allowing customers to dynamically scale security services,” said Tom Corn, Senior Vice President, Security Products, VMware.
“With the Intel Security and VMware integration, McAfee NSP provides integration within VMware NSX to allow customers to apply advanced security capabilities for the protection of east-west traffic in the data center, which makes up the majority of traffic in these environments. The McAfee NSP takes advantage of the VMware NSX platform’s distributed micro-segmentation enforcement and simplified automated provisioning, creating a zero-trust environment to automatically help protect organizations’ assets against advanced threats,” said Raja Patel, General Manager for the Network Security Business Unit, Intel Security.
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