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

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

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

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

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

NSX Application Platform (NAPP) and the automation appliance (NAPP-AA) is scheduled to be end of life by May 2026. If you recollect, we did a couple of blog series around NAPP and NAPP-AA previously, please check out if you are still interested: NAPP series: https://vxplanet.com/2023/05/03/nsx-4-1-application-platform-napp-part-1/ NAPP-AA series: https://vxplanet.com/2024/04/16/nsx-application-platform-automation-appliance-napp-aa-part-1-topology-and-appliance-deployment/ Now the question is, what is the…… Continue reading vDefend Security Services Platform and Security Segmentation – Part 1 – Introduction