Implementing Zero Trust with 
VMware NSX and vRealize Network Insight

At a time when the Internet of Things, the Cloud, and more are introducing new vulnerabilities, today’s network landscape makes security difficult and inefficient. We need a simpler network security model: Zero Trust. Prevent common and advanced persistent threats from traversing laterally inside a network. Tie security to individual workloads and automatically provision policies. It’s a network that doesn’t trust any data packets, where everything is distrusted: Zero Trust.

VMware NSX brings the operational model of virtual machines to your data center network, allowing you to overcome the hardware-defined economic and operational hurdles that are keeping you from adopting a Zero Trust model.

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. Get converged visibility across overlay and underlay, virtual and physical, and the private and public cloud. Integration with virtual (NSX) and physical layers (physical switches, routers, firewalls) connects the dots between vendors and the cloud. Easily understand who is talking to whom and what flows should be allowed—or blocked. Best-practice checks guide you through your VXLAN and firewall implementation and alert you to any pitfalls in your design and implementation of NSX. Go back in time and look at historical changes and see how they impacted the security of a virtual machine.

Use Cases for vRealize Network Insight

• Support micro-segmentation planning, recommendations and compliance
• Optimize network performance with 360 visibility
• Ensure the health and availability of NSX deployment