To secure your VMware environment, it's crucial to understand your attack surface — the sum of all potential entry points for unauthorized access, spanning hardware, software, and human factors. These entry points can be external or internal within your virtualized landscape. Absolute security is unattainable, but acknowledging the expansiveness of your attack surface is the initial step towards fortification.

Get this strategic guide on how to leverage agentless cloud and on-premises security for your organization.Increasingly dynamic environments require time and resources to constantly deploy agents for workloads, which creates a time-consuming task for updating and maintaining them and potentially provides an additional attack surface that can be exploited.

Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly common and are causing significant damage to organizations, exploiting vulnerabilities in systems to gain access and spread throughout the network, often causing irreparable damage by encrypting mission-critical workloads. The most efficient protection against any form of cyber-attack is to prevent it from happening in the first place.