VMware announced its new AppDefense service at the 2017 VMworld conference, aiming to simplify security in their virtualized environments. VMware AppDefense is a datacenter endpoint security product that was created to protect any applications running in virtualized environments. It functions by understanding how the application is supposed to work, monitoring for any changes to that intended state that could signal a breach of security, then automatically responding. Unlike most other antimalware programs, AppDefense is focused on whether the app that is running is operating as intended. VMware defines this as “ensuring good” vs. “chasing bad” on datacenter endpoints.
