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Stopping Threats Inside the Perimeter: Zero Trust Lateral Security with VMware vDefend
Perimeter firewalls are built to keep attackers out. The problem is what happens once one gets in. Ransomware and other modern attacks rarely stop at the first machine they reach; they move sideways, server to server, until they find something valuable.
VMware vDefend is built to stop that movement. It brings Zero Trust lateral security directly into VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), protecting VMs, containers and AI workloads from the inside.
Kubernetes Without the Chaos: Running Containers on VCF with VKS
Kubernetes promises faster delivery and more portable applications. In practice, many organizations end up with clusters scattered across clouds, a skills gap on the infrastructure team, and day-2 operations they didn’t plan for.
If you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), you already own a better path: vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), the Kubernetes runtime built into the platform. It lets you run containers alongside VMs, on infrastructure your team already knows.
Beyond the Perimeter: Securing VCF Applications with VMware ANS
Most VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers already own powerful tools to secure their applications. Far fewer use them to their full potential.
VMware Application Networking and Security (ANS) brings load balancing, distributed firewalling, threat protection, and microsegmentation into the same platform that runs your workloads. Used well, it closes the gap between a hardened perimeter and an exposed interior, where most modern attacks do their damage.
Resiliency & Migration: Making Sure Your VCF Environment Can Take a Hit
Resiliency isn’t a feature you enable once; it’s a design discipline you must validate, test, and maintain as your VCF environment evolves. ClearBridge’s Resiliency & Migration practice helps organizations build disaster recovery capability with Live Recovery and HCX, harden their backup ecosystem against ransomware, and execute the workload migrations and version uplifts that keep a VCF environment both current and protected.
Modern Apps & Data: Bringing Kubernetes, Data Services, and AI to Your VCF Environment
VMware Cloud Foundation isn’t just a platform for traditional virtual machines anymore. With VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS), Data Services Manager, and Private AI Foundation, VCF is now a full platform for cloud-native applications, managed databases, and GPU-accelerated AI workloads, all running alongside your existing VM estate. ClearBridge’s Modern Apps & Data practice helps organizations take advantage of that, rather than running VCF purely as legacy VM infrastructure while cloud-native workloads live elsewhere.
Operations & Monitoring: Seeing Your VCF Environment Clearly Before Problems Find You
You can’t manage what you can’t see, and in a VCF environment spanning compute, storage, and software-defined networking, visibility doesn’t happen by accident. ClearBridge’s Operations & Monitoring practice helps organizations build the dashboards, capacity models, log pipelines, and network flow visibility needed to run VCF Operations confidently at scale, rather than reacting to outages after the fact.
Trust by Design: Securing Agentic AI in Production
AI agents don’t just answer questions. They take actions: calling tools, reaching into systems, and working for your users. That’s what makes them valuable, and it’s why security is the first question to answer before any agent goes into production.
Metal to Model: Building Your Private AI Cloud on VCF
You want the benefits of AI, but your data is too valuable, too regulated, or too sensitive to hand to a public service. VMware Private AI Cloud lets you run AI inside your own environment, on the VCF platform you already trust.
Certified Expertise: What VCAP-VCF and ARIE Mean for Your Projects
When you trust a partner with your core infrastructure, or your first AI platform, you want proof they can deliver. Certifications are one of the clearest signals. Broadcom has introduced new certification paths that line up directly with where VCF is heading: VCAP-VCF and ARIE.
The AI Security Gap Is Widening, And Most Organizations Don’t Know It
AI agents already operate with real access and real authority inside enterprise environments: provisioning resources, querying sensitive data, and taking action with minimal human review. The numbers behind that shift are worth sitting on. These figures aren’t projections about where agentic AI is headed. They describe organizations running production systems today, which means the gap between these agents’ access and the visibility security teams have into that access isn’t a future risk to plan around; it already exists.
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