Nutanix Flow Network Security
Multicloud Security for Apps and Data

Overview:

The network is the foundation for the connected Enterprise. With increasing application complexity, driven by distributed services and rapid growth in SaaS and cloud-based offerings, the need to easily visualize, analyze and govern network communications becomes critical.

Nutanix Flow delivers advanced network security, providing visibility into the virtual network, application-centric protection from network threats, malware, and ransomware and security and compliance monitoring.

Flow allows organizations to deploy software-defined virtual network security without the complexity of installing and managing additional products that have separate management and independent software maintenance requirements.

Fully integrated into the Nutanix private cloud solution and Nutanix AHV virtualization, Nutanix Flow differs from traditional perimeter firewalls by allowing network policy to be attached to VMs and applications, rather than specific network segments (e.g., VLANS) or identifiers (IP addresses). Through centralized management from Prism, policies are auto-updated throughout the VM lifecycle, removing the burdens of change management.

Benefits:

Simplify, automate, and harden critical data against cyber threats

Threat actors are relentless, are your security tools? The Nutanix platform establishes a defense-in-depth foundation to help you create a rock-solid foundation for an ever-changing threat landscape.

Features:

Turnkey cybersecurity for end-users

Understand application communication

Visually map new or existing application workflows at a port level to better control access or application communications.

User-centric identity and malware protection

Enhance end-user security by leveraging identity to control network access to workloads and data (directory-based) while blocking the spread of malware and ransomware with microsegmentation.

Ensure access compliance

Easily segment application and data access without physically managing and building compliant networks using ring fencing and audits.

Enterprise-grade defense-in-depth for apps and data

Software-defined firewalls for apps and data

Easily create Zero Trust-focused tagged firewalls to segment and protect your users, apps, and data from cyber threats without disrupting your current infrastructure.

Visibility to help comply and discover

Gain policy-defined visibility and insight into the communications and vulnerabilities of all your applications and services under one dashboard.

Network threat protection

Enable application tiering at the OSI L4 with the option to create deeper inspection at L7 using partner integrations built for Flow Network Security.

Other capabilities

Documentation:

Download the Nutanix Flow Solution Brief (.PDF)