Broadcom Enables Enterprises to Strengthen Multi-Layer Cyber Defence and Operational Efficiency With New vDefend and Avi Load Balancer Capabilities
New Updates Layer Additional Defences Into VMware Cloud Foundation to Better Secure the Modern Private Cloud in the Frontier AI Era.
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced new updates to VMware vDefend and VMware Avi Load Balancer to deliver a rapidly deployed, intelligently operated, and high-performance multi-layer cyber defence. These enhancements expand private cloud security capabilities, optimise infrastructure costs, and use AI-powered automation to simplify operations for overstretched IT teams. With vDefend and Avi Load Balancer, enterprises can achieve a more cyber-resilient private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) while delivering scale-out workload security, operational efficiency, and rapid rollout. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
“As AI-fuelled cyberattacks and vulnerability exploits redefine the threat landscape, a fragmented security approach is no longer an option,” said Umesh Mahajan, Vice President and General Manager, Application Networking and Security Division, Broadcom.“With today’s updates to vDefend and Avi Load Balancer, we are giving enterprise customers the protection, performance, and automation they need to defend their application infrastructure at scale.” [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
Defending Against Frontier AI Threat Landscapes
The impact of frontier AI models on IT security demands more than perimeter or point defences to protect enterprise applications and data. It requires a multi-layer strategy that identifies and blocks threats to private cloud workloads at unprecedented scale and speed. Broadcom is introducing important updates to vDefend and Avi Load Balancer that enhance protection at multiple layers for modern private clouds built on VCF. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
Enhanced Lateral Security With vDefend Security Services Platform (SSP)
- Accelerated Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) With vDefend 1-2-3: Introduces a streamlined, three-step deployment framework that accelerates time-to-value for ATP, enabling overstretched IT teams to rapidly deploy defences in just a few weeks instead of many months. vDefend now offers the 1-2-3 workflow for ATP in conjunction with Distributed Firewall (DFW). Together, they leverage deep workload-level visibility to highlight security posture, recommend rules, and provide guided workflows to further strengthen security. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- On-Premises Malware Prevention: Brings malware sandboxing on premises, analysing static and dynamic artefacts entirely within the local network. All vDefend capabilities are now fully supported on premises, enabling enterprises to keep sensitive data in place and maintain control over their security protocols. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Comprehensive Air-Gapped Support: All vDefend capabilities are now fully supported in air-gapped environments. This deployment model enables secure, offline threat intelligence updates, so highly sensitive environments can stay current on the latest threat vectors without ever connecting to the cloud. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
API Protection With Avi Load Balancer
APIs are increasingly exploited by attackers to infiltrate private cloud environments. Broadcom is further enhancing Avi Load Balancer’s security capabilities by introducing native API protection for virtual machines (VMs), vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS), and AI workloads. The combination of Web Application Firewall and API Protection (WAAP) protects vulnerable APIs and gives enterprises comprehensive visibility to close security gaps while reducing the high cost and complexity of multiple disconnected tools. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
Optimising Performance to Lower Infrastructure Costs
To counter rising server hardware expenses, the latest optimisations to vDefend and Avi Load Balancer help enterprises get more value from their existing infrastructure investment. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Leaner Two-Node SSP Deployment: vDefend introduces a two-node SSP model that reduces the physical hardware required to run the platform by up to 33%, lowering infrastructure costs while delivering comprehensive lateral segmentation. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Distributed Firewall Performance Boosts: To deliver Zero Trust lateral security to data-heavy AI workloads, vDefend drives DFW speeds up to 22 Gbps on 25G NIC servers and up to 75 Gbps on 100G NIC servers, delivering scale-out performance of up to 75 Tbps per VCF instance. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Distributed Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) Performance: vDefend IDPS enables distributed virtual patching to block workload-level exploits in the hypervisor itself while software patches are deployed. Performance is boosted to up to 17 Gbps per server, delivering up to 17 Tbps scale-out performance per VCF instance. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Improved Application Delivery Performance: Avi Load Balancer scale-out throughput is boosted to up to 12.25 Tbps per controller instance. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
Simplifying Deployment and Operations With AI-Powered Tools
Broadcom is introducing an AI-powered assistant and advanced migration tool to streamline day-to-day operations and accelerate network migration. By embedding intelligence directly into the infrastructure, these updates help remove operational complexity and speed up the transition from legacy security solutions. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- AI Assistant: Both vDefend DFW and Avi Load Balancer now include AI Assistant to streamline lateral security and load-balancing operations. They embed AI-powered automation directly into the platform to simplify troubleshooting and remediation. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
- Automated Migration to vDefend DFW: The vDefend and Avi Conversion Tool (vACT) enhancement simplifies and automates the migration of legacy agent-based firewall solutions to DFW, significantly reducing migration costs and accelerating security improvements. [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
Third-Party Commentary
“As a global solutions integrator, TeraSky helps customers implement, operate, and modernise complex technology environments,” said Scott Rosenberg, Lead Architect in the CTO Office at TeraSky.“By integrating powerful AI directly into the product, the AI Assistant for vDefend and Avi streamlines operations by quickly showing real-time insights, assisting with troubleshooting, and accelerating deployments.” [[Press Rel…ficiency.. | PDF]
About Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software for global organisations’ complex, mission-critical needs. Broadcom combines long-term R&D investment with strong execution to deliver technology at scale. Broadcom is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.broadcom.com
