VMware secure access service edge platform. It is a platform that unites the leading industry in the cloud and network security. Let us learn more, about what they offer.
What Is Secure Access Service Edge VMware?
This is an advanced network security services platform. It is designed to help and protect your virtual infrastructure. Even helps to protect your data and applications across the cloud and hybrid enterprise.
It uses a unique combination of state-of-the-art security, architecture, and automation. It includes the following:
- application segmentation,
- VM-based application access control,
- user-based application access control,
- SaaS and web application security,
- cloud security and SSL VPN.
Why SASE Vmware?
It helps to ensure that your network devices are up to date. It also helps to ensure that all of your software is up to date. Even ensures that all of your physical devices have been patched correctly.
It is software that has a lot of benefits, which are discussed in the next section.
Benefits Of Secure Access Service Edge Vmware:
By using the SASE Vmware, you can benefit a lot. And here are some of them:
- It helps you to manage your overall security infrastructure. This product provides you with continuous
- Visibility,
- Resilience,
- automation and
- optimization.
- It also offers a high level of integration among your security products.
- This product is highly scalable and supports heterogeneous environments. In an automated way making it very easy for customers to deploy this service in their virtualized environments.
- The software is highly scalable as it can be used in small offices or big enterprises like the one mentioned above.
- This software can be easily deployed on any platform by just adding the agent to the server or network device to manage them.
- The management interface of this product is very easy to use. Because it provides a rich user experience for end-users with its graphical user interface and works with any other interface. Such as CLI or API.
- It gives you a lot of flexibility, as the customer can deploy this on a virtual or physical platform.
- It is a software-defined solution that gives you the ability to deliver flexible and responsive security services. To your end users because it offers automation and agility.
- Helps you to secure your data as well as applications with this product. The product uses application control capabilities.
How To Use The Platform?
The platform offers a lot of benefits and is easy to use. You can follow the steps given below to learn how to use this platform:
Deploy The Agent:
The first thing that you need to do is to deploy the agent. You can do it manually or by using automation tools. To do that, you need to download the latest version of the agent from here.
After downloading it go to the installation instructions section for more detail about how to install it on different platforms.
Considerations For Deploying The Agent:
First of all, you must have an active NSX license in your VMware environment. Also, you need to have a vCenter Server managed by vCenter Server Appliance or Windows Server.\
It also requires either a private cloud or vCloud Director environment managed by vCenter Server Appliance or Windows Server.
Your environment must be configured with Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) and Network Security Groups (NSG). It must also be configured with port groups. Which are used for management functions and VM connectivity.
Next, you need to integrate your NSX Controller with vRealize Operations Manager. So you can use the SASE Vmware feature. Then you can take advantage of automation features and cloud-based centralized management features.