City innovation staff ask whether moving to an SDDC means the city can retire firewalls. What should the operator identify?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Software-defined is not the same as "no security gear." The city still firewalls; the enforcement just moves into the hypervisor. Turning off every firewall because NSX arrived would be like removing every lock because the keys are digital.
Full Explanation
An SDDC virtualizes firewalling and access control as software services such as the NSX-T distributed firewall and gateway firewall. Isolation of overlay tunnels does not replace explicit policy. Carbon Black is endpoint protection and Horizon UAG is an EUC access appliance; neither is the SDDC answer to whether firewalls still exist. The correct identification is that firewalls continue, implemented in software rather than removed.