Congratulations!!! If you are reading this, you are at the concluding chapter of the month-long blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) and Security Segmentation. In the previous articles, we onboarded several applications to demonstrate various import procedures and use cases, and instantiated several DFW policy sets (less than 50 rules, I assume). Over…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 11 – DFW Rule Analysis
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 10 – Handling App Transitions
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 10 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous chapter, we demonstrated how to perform incremental imports to the existing hierarchy as the applications scale out, so that the scaled-out components become part of the application assets / groups, receive the intended…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 10 – Handling App Transitions
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 9 – Handling App ScaleOut
Welcome back!!! If you are reading this, Congratulations – we have come a long way in our blog series on the vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP) and Security Segmentation. This chapter and the next will focus on day 2 operations of security policy and inventory management in SSP like handling application scaling and application transitions.…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 9 – Handling App ScaleOut
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 8 – Promoting NSX Groups
Welcome to Part 8 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous chapters, we demonstrated full and partial hierarchy imports based on the datacenter / application topology and Security Intelligence automated the security tag assignments to workloads, assets and NSX group creation and the necessary infrastructure, environment and…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 8 – Promoting NSX Groups
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 7 – Partial Hierarchy and Incremental Import
Welcome back and New Year Wishes to all the readers!!! We are at Part 7 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous three chapters, we discussed the full hierarchy import procedure (5 hierarchy levels) of the Prod and Dev CRM applications and completed the segmentation journey by…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 7 – Partial Hierarchy and Incremental Import
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 6 – Segmentation Monitoring and Policy Recommendations
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 6 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous two chapters (Part 4 and Part 5), we onboarded two instances of the CRM application (CRM-Prod and CRM-Dev) as a full hierarchy import to SSP, published the inventory assets and foundational infrastructure and…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 6 – Segmentation Monitoring and Policy Recommendations
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 5 – Publishing Assets and Policies
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 5 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In the previous chapter, we performed an application hierarchy ingestion and generated the recommendations for assets and policies. Now let’s start publishing the assets and policies and review the NSX objects that are created by the…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 5 – Publishing Assets and Policies
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 4 – Application Hierarchy Import
Welcome to Part 4 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. This chapter along with the subsequent six chapters will focus on application hierarchy imports to SSP and the DFW 1-2-3-4 approach for shared infrastructure services protection, environment / zone segmentation, application microsegmentation, NSX groups promotion, application scaling, application transitions,…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 4 – Application Hierarchy Import
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 3 – NSX Onboarding and Feature Activation
Welcome back!!! We are at Part 3 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. In this chapter we will onboard the NSX manager cluster to SSP and activate Security Intelligence and DFW Rule Analysis features. If you missed the previous chapters of this series, please check out from the links…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 3 – NSX Onboarding and Feature Activation
vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 2 – Platform Deployment
Welcome to Part 2 of the blog series on vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation. Part 1 provided an overview of SSP and security segmentation journey covering the requirements, platform components, deployment topologies, segmentation planning and a short comparison between SSP and its predecessor NAPP. Here is the link to Part 1, in case…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 2 – Platform Deployment