Broadcom repackages VMware SASE, adds Symantec security

Broadcom wasted little time putting an old stamp on newly integrated VMware product – VMware VeloCloud SASE, secured by Symantec – aimed at helping customers secure highly distributed network resources.

The single-vendor SASE offering revives VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN branding and ties that technology with Broadcom’s Symantec Enterprise Cloud security service edge offering to create a secure WAN connectivity package. Broadcom officially acquired VMware last November for $69 billion and bought Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7 billion in November 2019.

The VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN software includes SASE, SD-WAN and software-defined cloud access to a global network of points of presence. It features a number of gateway and edge access control technologies, such as Dynamic Multipath Optimization for real-time application delivery and VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator for centralized installation, configuration, monitoring, and data flow instrumentation.

The Symantec Enterprise Cloud is a security architecture that includes a variety of components, including its own SASE features such as a secure web gateway, zero trust network access (ZTNA), data loss prevention (DLP), cloud access security broker (CASB), and endpoint protection products. 

“For enterprise-class customers, critical benefits of Symantec include management flexibility to enforce internet access by device, user, app, and location,” wrote Abe Ankumah, vice president and general manager for the SD-WAN and SASE business in the software-defined edge division of Broadcom, in a blog about the news. 

“Symantec can detect and block malware hidden in encrypted traffic, applying real-time threat intelligence, risk-level ratings, deep file inspection, and sandboxing. Symantec’s web isolation technology can block sophisticated and targeted web threats,” Ankumah wrote.