VMware Explore Barcelona 2024 preparations are underway, and we couldn’t be more excited! Mark your calendars for this year’s European event at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona from 4 – 7 November. The content catalog and session scheduling tool are now available, waiting for you to choose your favorites.
In today’s ever-evolving cybersecurity arena, vDefend is at the forefront of protecting your private cloud from ransomware and other threats with advanced security capabilities such as distributed firewall, gateway firewall, advanced threat prevention, security intelligence, and more. There are so many sessions to choose from – our featured session with Application Networking and Security General Manager Umesh Mahajan, breakouts, tutorials, hands-on labs, and an opportunity to meet the experts.
Featured Session
Ransomware Prevention and Cloud-Speed Application Delivery: Innovations in vDefend and Avi [ANSP1237BCN]
Distributed, software-defined security and load balancing are critical to rapidly deploy applications and defend against malware and ransomware in a secure and resilient VCF private cloud. VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer are plug-and-play network services for VCF, delivering operational simplicity with unmatched visibility and application analytics to cloud and security admins. VMware vDefend protects your applications and data from unrelenting ransomware attacks and accelerates your journey to Zero Trust with multi-layer, defense-in-depth security. GenAI co-pilot with vDefend revolutionizes threat detection and transforms SOC operations by alleviating alert fatigue. Avi Load Balancer ensures app delivery at cloud speed with an elastic load balancer, container ingress, and web application firewall. Join this session to learn about new innovations and strategic directions for vDefend and Avi to drastically buy-down cyber risk and accelerate application delivery.
Umesh Mahajan, VP & GM, Application Networking and Security, Broadcom
Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Breakout Sessions
The Conman of the Digital Era: Ransomware [ANSB1217BCN]
Ransomware, the modern-day conman, is a boardroom conversation. Protecting your business from the conman is everyone’s responsibility—not just your security team—because the conman doesn’t just knock on your security team’s door; he knocks on your door, too. The conman’s attacks are notoriously hard to detect because they are surprisingly simple yet unsuspecting. With access to ChatGPT, the conman is more powerful than ever. The purpose of this session is to teach you how the conman thinks and what you can do about it. This session will dissect a ransomware attack from the conman’s perspective, using VMware vDefend to illuminate strategies to thwart these threats before they cause harm. Whether you’re a seasoned security professional or an IT enthusiast, this session will equip you with the knowledge to combat the conman of the digital age.
Prashant Gandhi, Head of Products, Broadcom
Srinivas Nimmagadda, Director, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Reveal Your Application Flows with Security Intelligence [ANSB1167BCN]
Security Intelligence reveals your network traffic flows in a matter of minutes. Without the need for installing agents, deploying a TAP, or making any network configuration change, you get immediate deep visibility on your network flows, and you can review your security posture. In this session, you will see how Security Intelligence avoids any blind spot and provides layer-7 information and OS processes context. We will show you how to leverage clustering, labels or filters in the graphical user interface so you can manage your flows view at scale. Finally, we will demonstrate how Security Intelligence can analyze traffic patterns and detect suspicious network activity, which is a key element for network detection and response.
Antoine Deleporte, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom
Catherine Fan, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Demystifying Distributed Security in VMware Cloud Foundation [ANSB1015BCN]
People’s Choice Winner!
VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall (DFW), Distributed Intrusion Detection System (DIDS), and Distributed Intrusion Protection System (DIPS) provide security services in the kernel through processing of rules and signatures intrinsically within the virtual networking infrastructure. Great, so how does it work? We show the inner workings of the distributed services from an architectural standpoint, but more importantly, the best implementation techniques, as well as troubleshooting tools for examining the effectiveness of the strategy deployed. We show how to simplify the configuration of the centrally managed protection mechanisms and greatly reduce the time and effort needed to put a tight security policy in place.
Tim Burkard, Staff Technical Learning Engineer, Broadcom
Chris McCain, Director, Broadcom
Bootstrapping Segmentation and Zero-Trust in your VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud [ANSB1214BCN]
Micro-segmentation is an essential Zero Trust technique for preventing the lateral movement of malware and ransomware. Security teams are often stymied when they attempt to micro-segment large-scale, diverse, and sprawling private cloud environments. In this session, we’ll show how you can successfully micro-segment large, complex, and sprawling private clouds quickly and effectively using Security Intelligence.
Kausum Kumar, Product Management, Broadcom
Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO – ANS Division, Broadcom
Uncover Threats and Stop Ransomware with VMware vDefend [ANSB1216BCN]
Almost half of all breaches today involve threat actors taking advantage of the high degree of freedom of movement within internal enterprise networks to gain access to your most valuable assets. Traditional security solutions have left organizations in the dark about what happens within their virtualized environments, enabling attackers to lurk within for months before being discovered. Lack of visibility, limited automation, operational silos, and security policies that are decoupled from the assets being protected have led to operational inefficiencies and unmitigated risks. Join us in this session to learn about how the VMware Firewall and Advanced Threat Prevention enable you to turn on the lights in your data centers and beyond and stop unauthorized lateral movement in its tracks.
Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Deep Dive into VMware vDefend Automation [ANSB1169BCN]
When building new applications on-premises, developers want to use automation to control the infrastructure. With VMware vDefend, you can use automation to deploy your security policy and your workloads. As new workloads are created, policy is automatically applied and cleaned up when removed from the environment. Greenfield deployments can instantly be secured using the VMware vDefend toolkit. In this session, we look at ways to automate VMware vDefend using many different frameworks. Automation can give you quick results and simplify operationalizing your on-premises cloud.
Srinivas Nimmagadda, Director, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Antoine Deleporte, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom
Security Reference Design for VMware Cloud Foundation [ANSB1235BCN]
Attend this session to learn how to design security for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) management and workload domains. This session will include best practices for segmentation using VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall, policy management across multiple VCF instances, IDS/IPS, and threat prevention design best practices.
Nikodim Nikodimov, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Elevate Your Threat Investigation Workflow with the GenAI Security Intelligent Assist [ANSB1189BCN]
Security operators are tasked with investigating and responding to security incidents. With limited information and assistance, key tasks—such as triaging, contextualizing, and responding to incidents in a timely manner—place a burden on resources and sometimes results in suboptimal outcomes. The Intelligent Assist security assistant is designed to address these challenges by leveraging GenAI and machine learning. This demo-based session will cover how Intelligent Assist enables chatbot-enabled explainability of threat detection events on the VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall, and remediation through automatic policy creation.
Bopaiah Puliyanda, Senior Manager, Technology Product Mgr, Broadcom
Ranga Rajagopalan, CTO – ANS Division, Broadcom
Container Security – Policy Management for Kubernetes Workloads [ANSB1572BCN]
This session gives a quick overview of the overall container security portfolio. It covers design recommendations with zero trust security policy for your container workloads running on VMware Cloud Foundation and upstream Kubernetes. This session also provides guidelines for designing policies that span across both Virtual Machine workloads and Container workloads.
Madhukar Krishnarao, Sr Product Manager, Broadcom
Tutorial
With the growing landscape of malicious threat actors and the continued sophistication of attacks, security cannot be relegated to one group within the IT organization. Every part of the IT structure must adopt a security mindset. From architects to developers, security must be top of mind and built into all parts of the enterprise architecture. This session will showcase how to use the VMware vDefend Firewall to quickly and easily buy down risk against common attack methods and tools to create a more secure private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation. This session will allow attendees to better understand the anatomy of an attack and why vDefend Firewall is a powerful tool for mitigating the standard practices of today’s attack chain. The session will include demos that show how easy it can be to protect your private cloud.
Chris McCain, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
These sessions allow attendees to learn directly from top experts, advance their professional development, and accelerate their progress toward Zero Trust.
Join us by registering and reserving your seat at these incredible sessions. We look forward to seeing you!
