In this chapter, we will look at the security aspects of NSX. One of the primary use cases of NSX is its ability to offer a comprehensive toolset for data security. We will look at what security composer is and how it can be used to assign security services to your applications. We will look at creating security groups and policies and mapping a security policy to a group. We will next look at data security and install a data security policy. We will then learn about network extensibility and how to integrate third-party services with NSX.

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Service Composer
• Network extensibility