Exponant, a value-added reseller for Trend Micro, today announced it is now able to offer various value-added services to its clients orientated around the Deep Security product offering available from Trend Micro.
Virtualisation and cloud computing have changed the face of today's data centre, yet as organisations move from physical environments to a mix of physical, virtual, and cloud, many have addressed the prevailing threat landscape with yesterday's mix of legacy security solutions. The results can actually threaten desired performance gains, causing undue operational complexity, leaving unintentional security gaps, and ultimately hindering the organisation's ability to fully invest in virtualisation and cloud.
Trend Micro's Deep Security provides a comprehensive and unique server security platform designed to protect a virtualised data centre from data breaches and business disruptions, while enabling compliance. This agentless solution simplifies security operations while accelerating the ROI of virtualisation and cloud projects. Tightly integrated modules easily expand the platform to ensure server, application, and data security across physical, virtual, and cloud servers, as well as virtual desktops.
Thus, it is possible to custom tailor the security with any combination of agentless and agent-based protection, including anti-malware, Web reputation, firewall, intrusion prevention, integrity monitoring, and log inspection. The result of this is an adaptive and efficient server security platform that protects mission-critical enterprise applications and data from breaches and business disruptions without expensive emergency patching. Just offering an anti-virus capability on its own is no longer sufficient, and users need the additional facilities offered by Deep Security, including the high level of PCI compliance that is included.
"This overall level of protection is possible as Deep Security sits within the hypervisor in a VMware environment and is fully integrated with it, and thus it is not necessary for each virtualised server to have its 'own protection'," commented Derrick Hepburn of Exponant. "This is a capability that is unique to Deep Security and allows organisations to fully realise the cost benefits of moving to a virtualised environment."
"Being able to offer Deep Security services in addition to the many other solutions and services that are available to our clients, we have enhanced and enlarged the breadth of capabilities within the IT operations of an organisation," added Wolfgang Selzer, Executive Manager at Exponent. "The cherry on the top of all this is that Deep Security has been fully endorsed by VMware itself."
"We fully support this type of engagement and/or initiative from our resellers," concluded Gregory Anderson, Country Manager for Trend Micro South Africa, "particularly as this aspect of our product offering is extremely pertinent in the local marketplace as many of our users migrate into the virtualised world."
For further information, please contact Wolfgang Selzer: 012 663 0160; fax 012 663 5678; e-mail wolf@exponant.com.
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