Zero Trust at Scale with Chris McCain

How do you apply Zero Trust consistently across virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and rapidly changing applications?

Live from VMware Explore 2026, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson sit down with Chris McCain to discuss how VMware vDefend brings security controls directly into the hypervisor. They explore how tagging, dynamic groups, and application visibility can replace complicated IP-based rules and help infrastructure and development teams secure workloads at scale.

Chris also explains why AI-driven threats are bringing security back to the forefront, how virtual patching can give application teams more time to respond to vulnerabilities, and why vDefend is an important tool in an organization’s ongoing Zero Trust journey.