Virtualisation and cloud computing firm VMware has partnered with security solutions provider Trend Micro to deliver what it claims is the first agentless security platform architected for VMware virtualised data centres, virtual desktops and cloud deployments.
The companies will provide customers with VMware vShield Endpoint and Trend Micro Deep Security. By tightly integrating with and leveraging VMware products and APIs, Trend Micro security and compliance solutions allow VMware customers to increase consolidation rates, accelerate and complete their virtualisation journeys, more fully leverage their VMware investments, and maximise their ROI while offering best-in-class protection for the virtualised infrastructure.
"There is still a misperception in the market that the cloud - and for that matter, virtual infrastructures - are insecure," states Chris Norton, regional director for southern Africa at VMware.
"Through our global partnership with Trend Micro, we are able to add additional peace of mind right at the VM level, negating data breaches, maximising consolidation rates, operational efficiency and cost savings, as well as ensuring compliance with security best practices, internal governance and external regulations."
VMware vShield Endpoint is a solution that optimises security for use in VMware vSphere and VMware Horizon View environments. It enables offloading of security processing to dedicated, security-hardened virtual machines delivered by VMware partners.
Trend Micro Deep Security provides a security-hardened virtual machine that integrates with VMware vShield Endpoint and other VMware APIs to offer agentless anti-virus, integrity monitoring for virtual machines and hypervisors, intrusion detection and prevention, firewall and Web application protection, and application control for VMware virtual machines. Additional integration with VMware vCenter and vCloud Director co-ordinates security management across VMware virtual and cloud deployments.
The companies also note that the security platform offered by the vendors includes anti-malware, intrusion detection and prevention, integrity monitoring, application control, firewall, log inspection and Web application protection.
"There are a number of challenges that face traditional agent-based security solutions when used in a virtual environment, as virtualised data centres, desktops and cloud computing should have the same layers of security as a physical machine," states Gregory Anderson, country manager at Trend Micro.
"Security that isn't architected for a virtual environment can result in significant operational issues. Our agentless solutions therefore provide customers with 'better-than-physical' protection for virtual and cloud environments."
With Deep Security, the companies add, organisations can consolidate all server protection onto one platform, knowing that Deep Security was designed from the start to protect physical, virtual, VDI and cloud environments to help address the challenges of virtualisation, the disruptive and costly patch management operations through vulnerabilities shielding, and challenges of complying with internal/external regulations and mandates.
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