VMware and Carbon Black have teamed up with the goal of transforming current approaches to cloud and data center security.
The companies have developed a joint solution combining VMware AppDefense and Cb Defense’s advanced threat protection to provide a one-two punch for stopping threats to applications inside the data center.
As applications become more distributed and dynamic, they have also become more difficult to secure. Traditional security solutions are not flexible enough to keep up with applications as they change over time, leading to breakdowns in security.
The majority of attacks causing damage today are not simple malware easily rooted out with “known bad” signatures. They require watching behavior of applications for any deviation from the norm. They hinge on attackers manipulating the executables, processes, and operating system of the endpoint itself. Identifying these threats requires a deep understanding of both application behavior and threat behavior, something that traditional endpoint security products don’t possess.
The partnership builds on an earlier agreement giving VMware AppDefense customers the ability to leverage Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) reputation services.
Cb Defense, running on the Predictive Security Cloud, provides a next-generation endpoint protection solution that applies behavioral approaches to detect threats. It uses streaming prevention to monitor for malicious behavior on a machine to protect against malware and non-malware based attacks.
The new joint solution will be generally available from Carbon Black in VMware’s Q4 FY 2018, which ends on February 3, 2018.
First published in Networks Asia