ESXi Host Hardening: It provides recommendations for securing the ESXi hosts, including configuring authentication and authorization settings, disabling unnecessary services, enabling security features like Secure Boot and Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and implementing network security measures.

vCenter Server Hardening: The guide offers best practices for securing the vCenter Server, which is a centralized management platform for vSphere. It covers securing the vCenter Server installation, securing access and authentication, configuring roles and permissions, and enabling auditing and logging.

Virtual Machine Security: It provides recommendations for securing virtual machines (VMs), such as implementing secure VM configurations, using virtual machine encryption, enabling guest operating system security features, and protecting VMs from unauthorized access.

Networking Security: The guide offers guidelines for securing the vSphere networking infrastructure, including configuring virtual switches, VLANs, and firewalls, implementing network segmentation, and securing network communication between vSphere components.

Storage Security: It covers best practices for securing the vSphere storage environment, including securing access to storage devices, implementing storage encryption, and protecting virtual machine data.

Monitoring and Auditing: The guide emphasizes the importance of monitoring and auditing vSphere components, and provides recommendations for enabling and configuring logging, using security information and event management (SIEM) tools, and monitoring for suspicious activities.

Authentication and Authorization: The guide provides recommendations for configuring strong authentication mechanisms for vSAN components, such as vCenter Server and ESXi hosts. It suggests using secure protocols, enforcing secure password policies, and implementing multi-factor authentication where possible. It also covers role-based access control (RBAC) and permissions management.

Encryption: vSAN supports encryption at rest, which ensures that data stored on vSAN disks is protected. The guide offers guidance on configuring vSAN encryption, including selecting the appropriate encryption algorithm, managing key management servers (KMS), and enabling encryption for data at rest.

Network Security: It provides recommendations for securing network communication within the vSAN environment. This includes using secure protocols, enabling network encryption (VMkernel Encryption), and configuring firewall rules to control network traffic between vSAN components.

Auditing and Logging: The guide emphasizes the importance of monitoring and auditing vSAN operations. It offers recommendations for enabling and configuring logging, implementing log management solutions, and monitoring vSAN events for potential security incidents.

Secure Configuration Settings: It provides a list of vSAN-specific configuration settings that can enhance security. This includes recommendations for enabling features like Data-at-Rest Encryption, Secure Erasure, and ensuring proper network configurations.

Compliance and Hardening: The guide addresses compliance considerations and provides information on how vSAN aligns with various security frameworks, such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks. It also offers recommendations for hardening vSAN components, including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.

NSX-T 3.2 Security Configuration Guide

NSX-T 3.1 Security Configuration Guide

NSX-T 3.0 Security Configuration Guide

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Component Hardening: The guide provides recommendations for securing

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components such as

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Manager,

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Controllers, and

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Edge nodes. It includes guidelines for configuring strong authentication, implementing role-based access control (RBAC), and securing administrative access to

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components.

Network Security: It covers best practices for implementing network security within

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. This includes recommendations for creating and managing security groups, implementing distributed firewalling, configuring security policies, and enforcing microsegmentation to control network traffic.

Authentication and Authorization: The guide offers recommendations for configuring strong authentication mechanisms for

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, such as integrating with identity providers, enabling multi-factor authentication, and defining access controls based on user roles and permissions.

Secure Network Communication: It provides guidance for securing network communication within the

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environment. This includes configuring Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption for communication between

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components, securing communication between

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and vCenter Server, and protecting east-west and north-south traffic.

Virtual Machine Security: The guide provides recommendations for securing virtual machines (VMs) deployed in

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environments. This includes implementing security groups, defining security policies, and leveraging

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's integration with third-party security solutions for advanced VM protection.

Logging and Auditing: It emphasizes the importance of logging and auditing in

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environments. The guide offers recommendations for enabling and configuring logging, integrating

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with logging and monitoring solutions, and monitoring for security events and anomalies.

Compliance and Hardening: The guide addresses compliance considerations and provides information on how

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aligns with various security frameworks and regulations. It also offers recommendations for hardening

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components and ensuring compliance with security policies.