VMwa e Hype A mo offe s u ique, p oactive ze o day p otectio to VMwa e Cloud Fou datio e vi o me ts with o dow time, softwa e upg ades, o i -guest age ts
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — B oadcom I c. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global tech ology leade that desig s, develops, a d supplies semico ducto a d i f ast uctu e softwa e solutio s, today i t oduced VMwa e Hype A mo , a ew softwa e solutio to help fu the p otect the VMwa e ESX hype viso compo e t of VMwa e Cloud Fou datio (VCF) agai st the expo e tial i c ease i cybe attack sophisticatio by closi g exposu e wi dows without dis upti g the wo kloads that depe d o the host.
“F o tie AI has cha ged the th ee V’s of cybe secu ity th eats – the volume, velocity, a d va iety. Whe attacks come at machi e speed, eactive detectio a d patchi g a e o lo ge e ough,” said Paul Tu e , chief p oduct office , VMwa e Cloud Fou datio Divisio , B oadcom. “VMwa e Hype A mo takes a diffe e t app oach by allowi g o ly what is ‘k ow good’ to u o the host. With VMwa e vDefe d al eady delive i g vi tual patchi g capabilities fo the etwo k laye of VMwa e Cloud Fou datio , VMwa e Hype A mo ow expa ds that p otectio a ou d the hype viso compo e t itself.”
As AI-accele ated th eats g ow i scale a d sophisticatio , the th eat su face ow exte ds ac oss eve y laye of the i f ast uctu e stack i cludi g the hype viso . Two p oblems accou t fo most hype viso attacks: stole oot c ede tials a d u patched vul e abilities. VMwa e Hype A mo add esses both p oblems, with suppo t fo VMwa e ESX 8.x a d late eleases, as follows:
- Vi tual patchi g fo VCF’s ESX Compo e t Host E vi o me t. Hype A mo delive s host-laye vi tual patchi g to shield ESX by detecti g a d blocki g attempted malicious actio s withi the host odes befo e a y vul e abilities ca be exploited. These host-level vi tual patchi g capabilities compleme t the etwo k-laye vi tual patchi g available fo VCF via VMwa e vDefe d. Because vi tual patchi g of ESX does ot equi e host eboots o softwa e upg ades to mitigate vul e abilities, secu ity teams will be efit f om d amatically educed isk wi dows a d IT teams gai mo e ope atio al flexibility to test a d apply official patches o the schedule they p efe .
- Positive Host Secu ity Gua d ails. Hype A mo p otects the host at the i f ast uctu e laye , with o age ts i side guest vi tual machi es (VMs). A ESX host u s a small, fixed set of p ocesses. Hype A mo establishes a positive secu ity baseli e a d automatically blocks a y u autho ized executable o sc ipt. Hype A mo takes a i ve to y of sc ipts al eady o the host a d allows them automatically, a d admi ist ato s ca app ove ew o es. The esult is co ti uous mo ito i g a d complia ce e fo ceme t with mi imal pe fo ma ce ove head.
- Hype viso -level multi-facto authe ticatio (MFA). Hype A mo i teg ates MFA fu ctio ality di ectly i to the ESX SSH logi path. Loggi g i equi es two steps: sta da d SSH c ede tials, followed by a seco da y time-based o e-time passwo d challe ge tied to a sepa ately defi ed ide tity. Eve if a attacke obtai s the oot passwo d th ough phishi g o c ede tial leaks, they ca ot each the comma d li e without that seco d facto .
“Attacke s a e usi g automatio a d AI to exploit i f ast uctu e weak esses faste tha most o ga izatio s ca patch, which mea s laye ed defe se must exte d all the way to the hype viso as the fou datio of the p ivate cloud,” said Stephe Elliot, G oup Vice P eside t, Softwa e Developme t a d IT Ope atio s, IDC. “Tech ology leade s should p io itize p eve tive co t ols that help sh i k exposu e wi dows without dis upti g p oductio , a d app oaches that ha de the vi tualizatio laye atively athe tha elyi g o exte al age ts o post-i cide t detectio .”
VMwa e Hype A mo wo ks alo gside the b oade secu ity capabilities i VMwa e Cloud Fou datio to delive a i teg ated a d multi-laye ed app oach. VMwa e Cloud Fou datio is ha de ed out of the box with key capabilities that i clude ce t alized ide tity ma ageme t, data-at- est a d data-i -t a sit e c yptio , a d VMwa e vSphe e live patchi g, which applies c itical updates to the hype viso without taki g wo kloads dow o placi g hosts i to full mai te a ce mode. VMwa e Hype A mo adds a p oactive laye of p otectio fo the hype viso by blocki g p ocess executio exploits a d c ede tial theft. VMwa e vDefe d delive s st o g late al secu ity with mic o-segme tatio a d adva ced th eat detectio a d p eve tio fo VCF wo kloads, which uses deep t affic i spectio to block eme gi g exploits a d to delive etwo k-level vi tual patchi g. VMwa e Avi Load Bala ce p ovides web applicatio a d API p otectio (WAAP) fo secu i g web a d API t affic. Togethe , these laye s give custome s defe se i depth ac oss the i f ast uctu e, etwo k, a d hype viso .
- Read “P oactive Defe se: E ha ci g Hype viso Secu ity i the AI E a,” a blog f om P asha th She oy, VCF Divisio , B oadcom
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