About Event
VMware Cloud Foundation gives organizations a powerful security foundation for workloads and network traffic. ZeroLock builds on that foundation, extending modern security principles down to the hypervisor—the privileged control layer beneath every virtual machine, and an increasingly common target as ransomware against hypervisors surged roughly 700% in the second half of 2025.
In this session, Nathan Montierth, Solution Engineer & Threat Intelligence Lead at Vali Cyber, walks through how VCF's security capabilities protect workloads and the network, and how ZeroLock complements them with preemptive, runtime protection for the hypervisor itself. As the only Broadcom-certified hypervisor security solution, ZeroLock stops threats in real time—including fileless and living-off-the-land attacks—before they reach the workloads beneath, adding MFA across SSH, the dCUI, and the CLI; AI-driven behavioral detection and lockdown rules; and automated remediation that restores workloads in seconds. Paired with VCF's workload and network defenses, these hypervisor-layer protections close the loop on a layered, defense-in-depth strategy—better together, across the full stack.
What you'll learn:
- Why the hypervisor is a critical layer to secure, and how attackers target it
- Where workload- and network-level controls leave the hypervisor exposed
- How ZeroLock complements VCF with preemptive protection at runtime
- What a layered VCF + ZeroLock architecture looks like across the full stack
Speaker
Nathan Montierth
Nathan Montierth is the Threat Intelligence lead and Solutions Engineer at Vali Cyber. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the US Air Force Academy and spent his early career in offensive cyber operations with the US Air Force.
Event Partners
Vali Cyber® secures where attacks have the most impact: mission critical systems. While most defenses focus on endpoints, Vali Cyber identified Linux and hypervisors as critical yet under protected. Built for this reality, ZeroLock®delivers preemptive security with CLI-MFA, exploit prevention, deep hypervisor visibility, and AI-driven behavioral detection. By operating at the hypervisor layer, ZeroLock stops threats in real time without performance impact or added overhead. If incidents occur, automated rollback restores workloads in seconds, ensuring uptime. Recognized by Gartner as a Key Startup in Security Software, Vali Cyber leads by protecting the foundation of modern infrastructure others overlook.
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