VMware Introduction to the VMware NSX Web Application Firewall

VMware’s Intelligent Web Application Firewall solution provides application security and networking teams with an elastic and analytics-driven solution that scales and simplifies policy customization and administration through central management.

The WAF solution gives administrators an important point of security enforcement and intelligence, protecting web applications from common vulnerabilities as identified by OWASP, such as SQL Injection (SQLi) and Cross-site Scripting (XSS), while providing the ability to customize the rule set for each application. It analyzes security rules that match a particular transaction and provides that insight in real-time as applications and attack patterns are learned. This application intelligence, paired with intuitive one-click rule customization, allows VMware’s WAF to sharply reduce false-positives.