The old way of IT security worked well enough: keep out attackers with a wall and set up recovery points should anything get through. But modern ransomware makes a mockery of it, slipping past many detection protocols easily.

Some 70% of ransomware attacks are now fileless. The attack won’t announce itself and will go unnoticed by conventional antivirus systems.

VMware Cloud Foundation provides a two-way solution to your security. It cuts off how ransomware spreads and makes recovery trustworthy. The two systems within the solution for that are VMware vDefend and VMware Live Recovery.

Stopping the spread

VMware vDefend watches the traffic between your workloads and identifies the sideways spread from one machine to the next that a perimeter firewall never sees. VMware’s report shows that it secures 11x more east-west traffic (IDC).

Another advantage is that it reduces the attack surface. In practice, there are fewer open paths for attackers to exploit.

Recovery you can trust

Trusting your backups after an attack is no easy feat. You’ll second-guess them and rightly scrutinise all your recovery points.

VMware Live Recovery bakes trust back into your recovery efforts. It restores into a VMware-managed Isolated Recovery Environment, walled off from your live estate, and extends across all public and private clouds it covers.

There’s also embedded behavioural analysis. Those features validate your restore points and provide guided workflows to help you pick a clean one.

Compliance that checks itself

Even with VMware’s solutions in place, you’ll still worry about compliance. Meeting strict regulatory requirements is resource-intensive on its own, and compliance gaps have a way of surfacing at the worst moment.

VCF Operations validates your resources against defined benchmarks continuously, CIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS and the rest, with alerts when something drifts. Staying compliant across a spread-out estate is a moving target, but easier when you have VCF Operations.

As one of around 40 VMware by Broadcom partners in the UK, DSI Technology Services is committed to helping organisations maximise the value of their VMware by Broadcom investment as we work towards Premier Partner status.

We support customers using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), helping them fully utilise the capabilities included in their licences.

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