VMware vDefend

A comprehensive software-define lateral security solution that protects application traffic, delivering complete visibility, firewall, threat defense with a plug-and-play experience in the private cloud.

To learn more about VMware vDefend, visit https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-security-load-balancing/vdefend.html

Interacting with the following features will continue to be with NSX API. 

• Distributed Firewall
• Gateway Firewall
• Malware Policy Management
• Malware Service VM Management
• Malware Gateway Activation

To learn more about NSX APIs, visit https://developer.broadcom.com/xapis?tab=Virtual%2520Cloud%2520Networking

Security Services Platform is a high-performance, scalable platform that runs vDefend security features like :

• Security Segmentation Report and Score
• Security Intelligence
• Security Monitoring with time-series (Metrics)
• Network Detection and Response
• Malware prevention
• Network Traffic Analysis

You can learn more about the APIs of Security Services Platform (SSP) APIs and the features deployed on it, continue here.

API Policy: Changes, Deprecations and Removals

VMware vDefend and associated offerings may add new features that may lead to additional APIs or backward compatible changes to existing APIs to support the new features.

Changes to the API that lead to incompatibility with previous releases will be announced at least one year prior to the change. APIs or API attributes that will be removed will be marked "deprecated" in the API Guide. These changes can be implemented in either major or minor releases.

APIs marked as "experimental" or that are not documented in the API Guide are not subject to this policy. This indicates that the API may be changed or removed without notice in a future release.

Definitions:

• Major Release: Designated by an increment of the "x" digit of the x.y.z product version.
• Minor Release: Designated by an increment of the "y" digit of the x.y.z product version.