VMware vShield

Sophos Boosts Security Support For VMware Environments

August 29, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

IT security and data protection company Sophos announced a strengthening of its Elite-level partnership with VMware by supporting VMware vShield Endpoint.

Sophos will demonstrate the VMware vShield Endpoint prototype as part of its wider virtualization security solution strategy at this week’s VMworld 2011.

The Sophos virtualization intelligent endpoint security solution minimizes physical footprint on each virtual machine by utilizing VMware memory sharing and the ability to stagger scans. In order to optimize virtualization in the future, the company has developed a working prototype using VMware vShield Endpoint, and will deliver support for vShield 5 in a forthcoming version of Sophos Endpoint Security suite.

VMware vShield Endpoint allows anti-virus scanning to be offloaded from each virtual machine to a dedicated scanner.

In related news, Sophos has achieved VMware Ready status for its Virtual Email Appliance.

Catbird To Enhance Virtualization Security Solution With VMware vShield Integration

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Catbird has announced plans to deliver VMware vShield controls into Catbird vSecurity through an embedded OEM partnership with VMware.

The integration will give Catbird vSecurity customers the ability to deploy the VMware vShield App as an integrated component of Catbird’s broad security and compliance solution for virtualized infrastructure.

Catbird’s vSecurity weaves multi-function security directly into the fabric of virtual and cloud infrastructure to provide comprehensive protection. Available controls include vulnerability management, IPS/IDS, network segmentation, policy enforcement, inventory, configuration and change management, as well as monitoring and enforcement in many other key operational, security and compliance areas.

Kaspersky Lab To Add Support For VMware vShield For Virtual Data Centers

May 16, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Kaspersky Lab, a developer of secure content and threat management solutions, recently announced that it will support VMware vShield Endpoint from later this year and offer comprehensive protection for virtual machines from the latest malware threats.

VMware vShield Endpoint streamlines and accelerates anti-virus and anti-malware processing. It improves performance and provides comprehensive security by eliminating the need for agents in every virtual machine. In addition, the solution optimises resource utilisation by offloading anti-virus processing to a single security virtual machine.

Sourcefire Aims To Facilitate Application Control Within Virtual Environments

March 30, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Sourcefire, the creator of Snort and a provider of cybersecurity solutions, today announced integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield App and vShield Edge.

The integrations enable the Sourcefire Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to configure VMware vShield App or vShield Edge to dynamically restrict any policy-violating activity within a customer’s virtual environment.

The Sourcefire IPSTM integrated with VMware vShield products provides users with application detection, application control and real-time adaptive security.

With this ability to enforce security policies, the integration between Sourcefire and VMware vShield solutions helps users reduce the risk of a security breach or data loss. The Sourcefire IPS monitors real-time network and user activity in a virtual environment, detecting policy violations such as the use of unauthorized applications on non-standard ports or unpermitted access to a critical host.

When a violation is identified, Sourcefire uses VMware vShield APIs to dynamically configure vShield App or vShield Edge to restrict the activity causing the violation.

VMware Expands Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Introduces Six New Products

September 1, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

At VMworld 2010, VMware expanded its vision for modern IT infrastructures and announced six new products and services that help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require.

IT as a Service is the transformation of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes such as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This means IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production and consumption of those services in ways consistent with business requirements. This changes the role of IT from a cost center to a center of strategic value.

Building on the VMware vSphere foundation, VMware’s new cloud infrastructure products and services introduce a hybrid cloud model that bridges private and public clouds:

VMware vCloud Director: A new model for delivering and consuming infrastructure services

By extending the resource pooling capabilities of VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director enables IT to create “virtual data centers” (VDCs) – logical pools of compute, network and storage resources with defined management policies, SLAs and pricing. IT organizations can offer these VDCs – along with catalogs of other infrastructure and application services such as virtual appliances, VMs, and OS images – to users through fully automated self-service access.

Learn more about VMware’s VMware vCloud Director

The VMware vShield product family: Better-than-physical security for VMware-virtualized and cloud environments

VMware is introducing three new products that deliver a security model designed specifically for virtual and cloud environments. Traditional enterprise security depends on agents, dedicated hardware and brittle configurations. The dynamic nature of cloud environments, where applications and services are mobile and leverage shared infrastructure, requires a new approach.

VMware vShield Edge, VMware vShield App, and VMware vShield Endpoint virtualize security and edge services, including firewall, VPN and load balancing, freeing them from the constraints of physical infrastructure and providing a single, adaptive and programmable security infrastructure.

This eliminates the complexity and rigidity of traditional approaches, giving IT teams more visibility and control. When coupled with VMware’s partner solutions, VMware vShield delivers VMware-virtualized and cloud environments that are more secure than traditional, physical deployment models at a fraction of the cost.

Learn more about VMware’s vShield product family

VMware vCloud Datacenter Services: Secure, interoperable enterprise-class hybrid clouds delivered by leading service providers

While public cloud services have created an alternative for delivering compute capacity in a self-service, pay-per-use model, security concerns, uncertain SLAs, lack of compliance and fears of lock-in have limited enterprise adoption.

VMware vCloud Datacenter Services provide a way for enterprises to extend their datacenters to external clouds, while preserving security, compliance and quality of service. Delivered by some of the world’s leading service providers, including Bluelock, Colt, SingTel, Terremark and Verizon, VMware vCloud Datacenter Services will use globally consistent infrastructure, management and security models to make it possible for enterprise customers to move computing workloads from internal virtualized infrastructure to an external cloud and back.

VMware vCloud Datacenter Services offer VMware-certified compatibility and portability, auditable security controls, SAS-70-Type-II or ISO-27001 certifications, and virtual application security including stateful firewall and layer two network isolation, as well as role-based access control and LDAP directory authentication.

Learn more about VMware’s vCloud Datacenter Services

VMware vCloud Consulting Services

To help customers accelerate their journeys to the cloud, VMware’s vCloud Consulting Services include a complete portfolio of professional service offerings.

Based on VMware’s experience helping enterprises and service providers build cloud architectures, VMware vCloud Consulting Services provide assessment, planning, design, and deployment services for IT infrastructure transformation. Leveraged by enterprises and vCloud service providers, vCloud Consulting Services provide a common blueprint for next-generation infrastructure.

Learn more about VMware’s vCloud Consulting Services