Most enterprise IT professionals agree, securing the network only at the perimeter is inadequate for today’s data centers. Modern attacks can exploit a perimeter-centric defense. In this paper, we show how VMware NSX enables security that is both ubiquitous and granular by integrating security functions into the hypervisor itself. Build a fundamentally more agile, efficient and secure application environment with VMware NSX network virtualization featuring Intel Xeon processors and Intel Ethernet 10GB40GB Converged Network Adapters.