My customer refuses to purchase NSX, but insists on solutions in the hypervisor for AV, Application Whitelisting, and whatever else they can get their hands on. Currently On-Prem, but will be moving to Azure next year.
My overarching question is: WIthout NSX, is AppDefense+CB Defense worth spending money on? Consider On-Prem, SaaS, and Cloud (Azure/AWS).
The Doc page has a lot of information, but there are gaps in information or there weren't answers.
I apologize for the litany of questions, but it's a new product and I want to make sure it will do what my customer expects it to do. Thanks everyone!
I know the CB Defense Connector uses threat reputation and can stop processes. My questions are:
Hello KevBot
Thanks for your questions surrounding AppDefense I will outline the answers to your question in-line below but first I wanted to clarify something. AppDefense and CB are two different products and as such will perform independently of each other as well as have different architectural requirements. Just keep this in mind as answer your questions below.
One thing to keep in mind is I'm sure you've heard our intent to acquire CB. As that deal has not gone through we are two separate companies with two separate product offerings. Once we get to close on that deal, we look forward to being able to share some more details on thoughts about integration.
Take a look at the answers below and let me know if you have any additional questions. You can also hit us up in our slack channel #appdefense for questions. I'm one of the Solution Architects on the AppDefense team and that slack channel also has the PMs for AppDefense in it as well.
Thanks!
Thank you ephuber! I appreciate your detailed responses. I have some additional questions and some clarifications for you:
Again I appreciate everything, this has been very helpful. I'm excited for the product, but want to make sure it's functional for customers environment before I start uprooting existing vendors
My current understandings:
That's my take away so far. Is this correct?
Clarification/Additional Questions:
Happy to help KevBot! As with the first post, please find my response in-line below.
My current understandings:
Clarification/Additional Questions:
I hope this helped answer your additional questions! I'm sure there will be more but what I highly recommend is following the VMware Security Blog space where myself and my colleagues regularly post content. Also check out our youtube channel here: VMware AppDefense - YouTube. There's also a quickstart guide that our team developed here: VMware AppDefense - VMware AppDefense Quick Start Guide.
That quickstart guide has a page with helpful links with a lot of content to review that should also help in understanding how AppDefense works
Thanks so much for your interest in AppDefense
Hey KevBot just checking to see if you had any additional questions? If so I'd also be happy to setup a call with you as that might be a little easier than continuing via the forum but I want to make sure you get all the questions you need answered
Thanks!