Broadcom adds hypervisor protection to VMware

Broadcom adds hypervisor protection to VMware

Citing the growing speed and volume of artificial intelligence-enabled attacks, Broadcom Inc. today introduced VMware HyperArmor, software that protects the hypervisor underlying VMware Cloud Foundation and gives administrators more time to test and deploy security patches.

Announced at VMware Explore in Frankfurt, HyperArmor targets two common routes into virtualized infrastructure: stolen root credentials and unpatched vulnerabilities. It combines host-level virtual patching, controls on executable programs and scripts and multifactor authentication for remote access to…