Virtualization

Security and compliance for virtualized environments

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Overview

Implementing virtualization solutions is challenging enough without security and compliance hindering performance and expected operational returns. With McAfee’s solutions for virtualized environments, you retain the operational benefits of virtualization while ensuring optimized virtual server security and compliance. Our solutions deliver new options for protection and operational efficiency — whether you are consolidating data centers, managing virtual desktop infrastructure, or looking to protect sensitive information within your databases.

Key Benefits

  • Secure databases in virtualized environments
    Leverage the benefits of virtualization without exposing critical information to hackers intent on violating security. McAfee Database Activity Monitoring uses an architecture that matches the distributed nature of virtualized environments and keeps databases safe.
  • Get complete control for virtualized servers
    Provide virtual machine security and enforce change policy to ensure continuous security — regardless of where the server is provisioned or what other servers are in proximity.
  • Increase flexibility for virtual server security
    Ensure continuous compliance and security for data center operations and virtualized servers. McAfee’s solutions for virtualized environments support live migration and security coverage — even when the virtual server is offline.
  • Reduce operational overhead while providing virtual desktop security
    Implement virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) without negatively impacting your existing infrastructure or creating performance issues that may hinder user acceptance and adoption.
  • Manage security across the enterprise
    Utilize the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) platform to set policies, generate reports, and seamlessly manage the security of your enterprise, from physical to virtualized endpoints, decreasing the overall cost of management.

Products

Database Security

McAfee Database Activity Monitoring
McAfee Database Activity Monitoring

McAfee Database Activity Monitoring stops attacks in real time, delivers sophisticated audit reports to help meet compliance requirements, and eases vulnerability remediation with virtual patching technology.

McAfee Security Scanner for Databases
McAfee Security Scanner for Databases

McAfee Security Scanner for Databases automatically finds databases on your network, determines if the latest patches have been applied, and tests for weak passwords, default accounts, and other common threats.

McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases
McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases

McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases shields databases from the risk presented by unpatched vulnerabilities. It detects and prevents attempted attacks and intrusions in real time, without requiring database downtime or application testing.

Endpoint Protection

McAfee MOVE AntiVirus
McAfee MOVE AntiVirus

McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) AntiVirus optimizes McAfee virus protection for virtual desktops and servers without compromising performance or security, helping you realize operational returns and more effective security management.

McAfee Total Protection for Server
McAfee Total Protection for Server

McAfee Total Protection for Server is the industry’s first server security solution that safeguards your critical servers from complex threats while preserving uptime and availability.

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images automatically secures virtual machines while they are offline, ensuring that when they go online, they are virus-free and up-to-date with the latest anti-malware protection.

Services

Secure Virtualization Implementation Services

Secure your virtual infrastructure. Foundstone uncovers vulnerabilities that present risks to your virtual infrastructure and boosts compliance with industry best practices.

Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment

Uncover security vulnerabilities in your virtual infrastructure. Foundstone evaluates the architecture, configuration, and management of your virtualized environment to identify gaps with industry best practices and lower risk.

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Reports

Make Optimizing Security Protection in Virtualized Environments a Priority

Endpoint security protection capabilities must evolve to explicitly support virtualized environments — ideally, providing virtualization exploitative solutions and protecting virtualized desktop and server workloads. Different vendors are at different levels of maturity in their virtualized protection capabilities, so this must become a key requirement in server and desktop security protection solutions moving forward.

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  • McAfee Network Security Doubles Performance of Existing IPS Solutions
    Tyler Carter - May 08, 2012
    In modern high-density server environments, high switching and routing capacities are an absolute necessity. But while consolidation, virtualization and cloud computing have been driving up network performance for years, very few security solutions have been built to meet these faster networks. This has led to tough decisions between security and performance, not to mention the Read more...
  • Why Integrity Matters: A Silicon to Software Model to Accelerate Cloud Computing
    Greg Brown - May 04, 2012
    The advantages of cloud computing – new levels of cost efficiency, rapid deployment and self-service are much talked about. Yet, while cloud computing remains a top executive priority, security factors are inhibiting broadscale adoption. Very recent Intel Peer Research on cloud computing “What’s Holding Back the Cloud” revealed that 56% of IT professionals are concerned Read more...
  • McAfee at Interop 2012
    Tyler Carter - May 04, 2012
    This week, our McAfee team is gearing up to attend Interop 2012, May 8-10 in Las Vegas! If you’re at the show, stop by our booth #421 where VP of Network Security Greg Brown and myself will be performing product demos and presentations throughout each day on the McAfee Network Security Platform, Enterprise Security Manager Read more...
  • Information Security Within Emerging Markets: Brazil
    Brian Contos - April 26, 2012
    With the world’s 10th largest economy and 5th largest population, Brazil’s economic acceleration and technical growth are second only to China when it comes to emerging economies. Not unsurprisingly, this rapid acceleration of economic power and supporting technology has made Brazil a prime target for cyber attacks for well over a decade. As one of Read more...
  • Don’t Let Your Data Center Security Get Voted Off the Island
    Tyler Carter - April 20, 2012
    As more and more businesses move towards virtualization, physical data centers are going the way of the Buffalo. Once a data center has been virtualized, an integral part of the network is moved from the physical island of computing resources into the virtualization software.  Inspecting traffic is more challenging when it is self contained in Read more...