Organizations that invest in proprietary applications and data
for competitive advantage in their industries only succeed by
making those investments available to employees, customers,
and partners that drive revenue and opportunity. Securing
those investments requires a fresh perspective as the types
of devices accessing the cloud datacenter are changing rapidly
and new workloads, such as VDI desktops, are appearing more
regularly alongside server workloads. These changes alter the
potential attacks and potential threats to datacenters whose
security primarily stands firm at the perimeter, however, within
the data center the security is weak.
By combining VMware NSX with the AirWatch Tunnel and/or
VMware Horizon View, organizations are able to bridge the
device to datacenter security gap in a way that both increases
the overall security of the cloud datacenter and makes it far
simpler to manage security through defining and delegating
application and services to specific users. This enables IT to
increase security while lowering the access and authentication
burden on the users.