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What is VMware AppDefense (discontinued)?
VMware AppDefense was a hypervisor-native workload protection platform for enterprise virtualization and security teams, used to deliver a secure virtual infrastructure and simplify micro-segmentation planning by providing application visibility, reputation scoring, and security. The product is discontinued, and no…
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What is VMware AppDefense (discontinued)?
VMware AppDefense was a hypervisor-native workload protection platform for enterprise virtualization and security teams, used to deliver a secure virtual infrastructure and simplify micro-segmentation planning by providing application visibility, reputation scoring, and security. The product is discontinued, and no longer available.
VMware AppDefense (discontinued) Features
- Supported: Application Visibility and Control
- Supported: Increased Security Protection
- Supported: Streamline Security Incident Response
VMware AppDefense (discontinued) Integrations
- VMware Carbon Black Endpoint
- IBM Security QRadar SIEM
- Splunk
- SecureWorks
VMware AppDefense (discontinued) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
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VMware AppDefense was a hypervisor-native workload protection platform for enterprise virtualization and security teams, used to deliver a secure virtual infrastructure and simplify micro-segmentation planning by providing application visibility, reputation scoring, and security. The product is discontinued, and no longer available.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of VMware AppDefense (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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NAES, a company that has deployed the software at their corporate headquarters, has gained valuable visibility into their east-west traffic and prepared for implementing NSX. By utilizing the software, they are able to effectively monitor and receive alerts about anomalous behaviors, gaining further insight into application connections and used ports. This helps them achieve their goals of improving security and manageability by building a robust RBAC model, micro-segmenting the network, and having 24/7 visibility of VMs. Additionally, AppDefense is utilized in conjunction with NSX and Carbon Black to limit East/West exposure, establish baselines, and enhance visibility of VMs during abnormal activities.
AppDefense offers various use cases, including its installation on all Windows VMs within the virtual environment. This provides comprehensive protection and visibility against malicious server processes, thereby adding an extra layer of security in the data center. The system promptly alerts IT personnel about any new or rogue processes and their communication with public IPs and ports. Furthermore, across the organization, AppDefense is employed to safeguard internal assets from lateral movement in case of a breach. At NAES's corporate site, it serves as an invaluable security measure in a mixed environment of virtual machines catering to both clients and employees.
Clever Approach: Users have appreciated the cleverness of AppDefense's approach, with some mentioning that it sets the product apart from others in the market. They find the concept of having a baseline of normal behavior to monitor to be unique and valuable.
Performance-friendly: Many users have praised AppDefense for not overloading their systems with performance-draining agents. This aspect of the product is seen as beneficial since it does not negatively impact system performance.
Integration with VMWare products: Several users mention that the integration with VMWare products is a positive aspect of AppDefense. They find it convenient and important to seamlessly integrate AppDefense with their existing VMWare infrastructure because they already use or plan to purchase VMWare products.
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- Time-consuming installation and update process: Some users have found the installation and update process to be time-consuming, requiring multiple reboots. This has resulted in delays and interruptions in their workflow, causing frustration.
- Weak reporting capabilities and lack of bare metal support: Users expressed a need for stronger reporting capabilities to effectively analyze and track system events. Additionally, the absence of bare metal support limits their ability to monitor and secure physical servers or endpoints.
- Steep learning curve and complex management: Several users have noted that the product has a steep learning curve, requiring significant time and effort to understand its features and functionality. Additionally, managing multiple components within the product can be overwhelming, leading to confusion during configuration and maintenance tasks.
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October 12, 2019
VMware AppDefense makes sense and is easy to deploy
It is being used to add another layer of security in our data center. AppDefense so far has given IT the visibility inside the managed Virtual Machines and what processes are running. It gives us the ability to be alerted if new or rogue processes are running and if those processes are communicating to public IP and which port.
- Configuration and deployment were simple.
- Consuming the data from the OS and presenting it to the user with simplicity.
- AppDefense Manager has built in Online Chat Support, so it is easy to reach a representative for assistance.
- PowerShell functionality.
- Sorting results in some areas are not applicable.
- Email alerting through AppDefense Manager does not exist, but support has said it is a feature to come.
August 13, 2019
Thoughts and Insights about VMware AppDefense
VMware AppDefense is installed in our virtual environment on all of our Windows VMs. It protects servers across multiple departments in the whole organization. It provides a layer of protection and visibility against bad server processes.
- Easy to install and maintain.
- Easy to interpret GUI to access status.
- Very good support.
- New product had some growing pains.
- Email notifications need to be added.
- Upgrade process needs to be more automatic.
July 30, 2019
Recently Implemented AppDefense
It is presently being used at our corporate site to provide an additional layer of security.
- Ease of installation
- Integration with carbon black
- Alerting
- Deleting the groups wasn't obvious
July 29, 2019
First year on AppDefense
Our current organization goals revolve around improving security and easing the manageability of our systems, two things that often don't correlate with each other. Some items of that process include building a more robust RBAC model, micro-segmenting our network and gaining 24/7 visibility of what's happening on our VMs. To accomplish those goals, we landed on using the combination of AppDefense, NSX and Carbon Black. NSX with its Active Directory integration greatly limited the East/West exposure to each of our VMs. Once we ironed out the connections needed for each VM we monitored a 30, 60, and 90 day baseline with AppDefense and Carbon Black. It was noisy in the beginning but once established we have better visibility to our VMs when something out of the ordinary is happening.
- Understanding normalized operations and resource usage of VMs at the guest level
- Fine grain control of of guest level operations
- Steep learning and a lot of moving pieces
- Very new product and Carbon Black is the only 3rd party vendor that can integrate
- Limited information and training. We've never been to VMworld but it was barely mentioned at the VMUG UserCons we've attended
VMware AppDefense is being used across the organization to protect internal assets from lateral movement in case of a breach. We have a mixed environment of virtual machines. We have virtual machines dedicated to our clients, in addition to server virtual machines that provide services to all of our employees and clients.
- Provides detailed process and command-line information.
- Provides visibility into what connections are being made to/from a specific server/service.
- Ability to group multiple VMs into service groups for proper correlation.
- No ability to display network owner information in alerts (i.e. AS number/Network owner name of a public IP).
- No ability to resolve IP addresses for display in alerts.
- Setup, classifying, and configuring all of the requisite process rules is tedious.
Currently NAES has been deployed at the corporate headquarters with plans to roll out to remote offices and subsidiaries. Our initial use is to gain visibility into our east-west traffic in preparation for implementing NSX. We also use it to alert us to anomalous behaviors.
- I think that the AppDefense approach is clever and sets it apart from other products. Having a baseline of normal behavior that I can see is something I haven't seen in another product before.
- AppDefense doesn't overload my systems with performance draining agents.
- AppDefense integrates with VMWare products I have or plan to purchase.
- Access to AppDefense support has been better than any other VMWare products.
- The installation and update process is time consuming and requires too many reboots.
- Bare metal support is very badly needed.
- Reporting is weak. I need to pull information out that shows regulatory compliance requirements are being satisfied.
- When I whitelist or blacklist a process there are no fields to track why that decision was made.
- Blacklisting doesn't do what I thought it was doing.
- Some basic AV should be included to satisfy regulatory requirements.
July 24, 2019
knowledge is power
AppDefense is used across the organization. It monitors "normal" application activity in the city and notifies if there is any abnormal activity detected. It gives us further view into the connections to an application or system and the ports that are used.
- More visibility into my VM environment
- Notification: send an email or a text for any alerts