VMware vDefend Firewall

Software-defined L2-L7 firewall for VMware private clouds, comprising the in-hypervisor Distributed Firewall and the Gateway Firewall on NSX Edge nodes; sold by Broadcom as an add-on to VMware Cloud Foundation. It is available as a virtual appliance. Recorded capabilities include application control, deep packet inspection, intrusion detection (ids) and intrusion prevention (ips). Its record also notes stateful inspection and vpn gateway. It is aimed at Enterprise and Service Provider buyers.

Current Version

9.1.1.0100

Product Page

vmware.com/…/vdefend-distributed-…

Market

EnterpriseService Provider

Licence

Paid

Price

Paid · price unknown

Record Created

2026-09-20

Last Updated

2026-10-28

VMware is a virtualisation company, and its presence in this index is the result of one acquisition: it bought Carbon Black, the endpoint security firm, in 2019 and sold its products as VMware Carbon Black Cloud, adding NSX for network segmentation on the infrastructure side. VMware itself was acquired by Broadcom in November 2023, and the Carbon Black products moved with it. They are now sold by Broadcom, whose security division also holds Symantec's enterprise business, so what were three separate companies — Symantec, Carbon Black and VMware — are now branches of one owner. Products listed here under the VMware name should be read as historical branding: the technology is still sold, but the vendor on the invoice is Broadcom, and the VMware prefix has been dropped from the Carbon Black product names. Vendor page →

Website

vmware.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Palo Alto, United States

Year Established

1998

Customers

20K organisations

Users

10M devices protected

Revenue

$13.4B (2022)