Category Archives: Security

VMware NSX Online Fundamentals – Multi-Site/Disaster Recovery

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Humair

Check-out this overview and walk-through presentation I recently did on Cross-VC NSX functionality introduced in NSX 6.2. Deployment models, Multi-Site, and Disaster Recovery solutions are also discussed. To view the video, you must first register. You will then have access … Continue reading →

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Advanced VMware NSX Security Services with Check Point vSEC

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Humair

If you haven’t already, checkout my post on the VMware Network Virtualization blog where I describe and show a demo on Advanced VMware NSX Security Services with Check Point vSEC. Most of the information is from prior posts I had … Continue reading →

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Automating VMware NSX Security Rules Creation with Splunk and Python

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Humair

If you haven’t already, checkout my post on the VMware Network Virtualization blog where I describe and show a demo of how Splunk can be used to monitor the VMware NSX distributed firewall (DFW), and, with a little Python code, … Continue reading →

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Reset VMware NSX-V DFW to Default Setting via NSX REST API with Python

Posted on December 31, 2015 by Humair

I’ve been playing with the VMware NSX-V 6.2 REST API using both a browser based REST API client and Python. While I was exploring different methods, I deleted the default NSX-V Distributed Firewall (DFW) L3 section via REST API call … Continue reading →

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VMware NSX and Comprehensive Security for the SDDC

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Humair

I’ve written several prior articles on the VMware NSX network virtualization platform as it relates to security. NSX offers such a robust platform for security, I sometimes come across folks interested in NSX yet not aware of the full potential … Continue reading →

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Advanced Security with VMware NSX and Check Point vSEC [Video]

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Humair

In a prior blog, I wrote about VMware NSX and Check Point vSEC integration for advanced security. Check out the VMware NSX Check Point vSEC demo on the VMware NSX YouTube channel or embedded directly below. In this demo, I … Continue reading →

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VMware NSX: Advanced Security Services with Check Point vSEC

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Humair

In early 2014, the well known security company, Check Point, announced it was collaborating with VMware to integrate its security software with NSX to help automate and simplify the provisioning of advanced security services. Just last month, Check Point announced … Continue reading →

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VMware NSX Service Composer: Advanced Security & Micro-segmentation

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Humair

In a prior blog, Firewalling & Micro-segmentation with VMware NSX, I discussed some of the basics of firewalls and micro-segmentation with VMware NSX. In this blog, I’ll introduce how security groups via NSX Service Composer can be used with VMware … Continue reading →

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Security, Art of Hacking, & the Worst 2014 Security Breaches

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Humair

Security is hot; no doubt about it. Consider the fact that between 2011 and 2013, venture investors put nearly $3 billion into cyber security companies, resulting in new funding for some 300 firms (Source: Thomson Reuters). Worldwide security software revenue … Continue reading →

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