NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 2 – Distributed IDS/IPS

Photo by FLY:D on Unsplash Introduction This is Part 2 of a multi part blog series, focusing on the NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS. If you have not already reviewed Part 1, click here DISCLAIMER: In this post I will be running vulnerability scans and attacks against a purposely vulnerable web application. Utilizing … Continue reading NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 2 – Distributed IDS/IPS

NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 1 – Overview and enabling the Add-on

Photo by Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash Introduction In this post, I'll provide a quick overview of the new NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS and walk through enabling the add on and individual features. This will be a multi part blog series, and I'll walk through each feature in more detail in different parts. NSX Advanced Firewall … Continue reading NSX Advanced Firewall for VMC on AWS- Part 1 – Overview and enabling the Add-on

Prepare Clusters for VLAN Micro-segmentation with NSX-T 3.0

One of the new features in NSX-T 3.0, is a wizard to quickly implement VLAN based micro-segmentation.  A misconception with NSX, is that you have to deploy Software Defined Networking to leverage micro-segmentation.  That is not the case if you just want to secure workloads backed by VLAN's. Check out the release notes for a … Continue reading Prepare Clusters for VLAN Micro-segmentation with NSX-T 3.0

Working with NSX Firewall Saved Configurations

  Photo by Zan on Unsplash NSX-T features some usability improvements when it comes to saving firewall configurations, or drafts. In this post I'm going to walk through how you can leverage this feature.  An example use case is a business that has a change control policy mandating administrators can only  publish Distributed Firewall updates outside of core … Continue reading Working with NSX Firewall Saved Configurations

Solved – Problem registering vCenter & NSX with HCX

I was in the process of installing HCX in my lab, and ran into an issue connecting my vCenter Server and NSX environment. While trying to connect,  received the following error "PKIX path building failed: java.security.cert.CertPathBuilderException: Unable to find certificate chain" Couldn't find a solution online, so thought I'd publish a quick blog post detailing … Continue reading Solved – Problem registering vCenter & NSX with HCX