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Explore advanced security innovations and resilience capabilities in this 33-minute conference presentation from Tech Field Day. Discover how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 delivers next-level security, trust, and resilience to empower IT operations amid regulatory complexities and geopolitical uncertainty. Learn about the platform's "security first" approach that prioritizes ongoing security practices over infrequent compliance audits, enabling organizations to achieve security faster while recognizing that security serves as a foundation for delivering services and running workloads. Examine the importance of resilience through features like vMotion and compliance with the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act, addressing both tactical scenarios such as failed application upgrades and strategic disaster recovery planning. Understand VCF 9.0's core differentiator of inherent trust in the stack, moving toward continuous verification rather than blind trust, including platform security state verification, data sovereignty, and controlled access mechanisms. Dive deep into lifecycle patching enhancements with Lifecycle Manager designed to simplify updates and manage multi-vendor cluster images, featuring live patching capabilities, custom EVC profiles, and improved GPU usage that reduce maintenance friction. Explore comprehensive hypervisor security enhancements including code signing, secure boot, and sandboxing technologies, along with confidential computing implementations using AMD SEV-ES and Intel SGX technologies and the introduction of a user-level monitor to de-privilege VM escapes. Discover workload security improvements encompassing secure boot, hardened virtual USB, TPM 2.0 updates, and forensic snapshots, plus cryptographic enhancements featuring TLS 1.3 by default, cipher suite selection, and key wrapping capabilities. Learn about centralized password management, unified security operations, and standardized APIs for role-based access control that enhance both security and automation across the infrastructure stack.
