VMware Carbon Black Announces New Threat Detection and Response Capabilities – Nokturnal

Focused on modern applications, the Cloud Native Detection and Response capabilities provide security teams with enhanced visibility and context for better security

The leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, VMware, has announced advancements in its Carbon Black Extended Detection and Response (XDR) strategy focused on cloud native applications. The Cloud Native Detection and Response (CNDR) will provide VMware Carbon Black customers with unified visibility, security, and control, even in the highly dynamic and complex environments of modern applications.

As organisations increasingly adopt multi-cloud and hybrid technology infrastructures, containers and Kubernetes have become synonymous with the modern application transformation. However, the growth in cloud native architectures and containers also expands an organisation’s attack surface, resulting in additional challenges for Security Operations Centre (SOC) teams. Besides having to learn the complexities of cloud native environments, they now also deal with the issue arising from containers running in production with limited-to-no security coverage, disparate tools that create gaps in coverage, and limited visibility into the different layers of these applications.

Offering a single, united platform, VMware Carbon Black’s new CNDR capabilities expand its leading XDR solution to deliver enhanced threat detection for containers and. These enhancements aim to provide a scalable approach for protecting applications from emerging threats and help eliminate blind spots for attackers to exploit.

As a result, the SOC teams will benefit from enhanced visibility, additional context and historical data, and simple alert triaging.

“The rise of containers, and often the resulting lack of visibility and limited control security teams have, has created a perfect storm for attackers to target cloud native applications as a means of entry into an enterprise,” said Jason Rolleston, vice president and general manager of VMware Carbon Black. “In order for security teams to keep up, it’s critical that organisations have security visibility and control that spans the entire application lifecycle and does not require them to be experts in containers and Kubernetes. With our advanced CNDR solution, VMware Carbon Black is the only partner that delivers threat detection and response from a single console across endpoints, workloads, and containers.”

The new CNDR capabilities for containers and Kubernetes are expected to be available within the next six months. These features build on the Carbon Black vision for protection, detection, and response with accelerated deployment and easier adoption. For more information, visit the VMware Carbon Black Container page.