At the VMware Explore conference today in Las Vegas, Broadcom announced new security enhancements for its VMware vDefend and VMware Avi products, which are part of the VMware Cloud Foundation Cyber Compliance Advanced Services. Upgrades include more security for agentic workflows, including model context protocol (MCP) servers, and support for post-quantum encryption, among other improvements.
“We are helping customers build their entire data services strategy and environments out, as well as their AI service,” Purnima Padmanabhan, general manager of the Tanzu Division at Broadcom, said at a press conference last week. “AI specifically has really created a jump on effect where most of my customers are now revaluating and looking at their application and data stacks specifically to capitalize on AI as well as incorporate AI both of those. And the transformation is pretty dramatic.”
VMware’s Tanzu platform allows enterprises to quickly develop and deploy applications, including both generative AI and agentic AI-based applications.