Today at VMworld 2011 Europe, Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure
content and threat management solutions will be unveiling its security prototype
for virtual environments: Kaspersky Virtualization Security for VMware vShield.
The new solution will provide comprehensive anti-malware protection for virtual
machines without compromising host consolidation ratios.
Recent
research* suggests that while up to half of IT organisations will have installed
virtual servers within the next 12 months, less than a fifth will have done
anything about their security. With 70,000 new malware samples identified every
day by Kaspersky Lab security experts, introducing virtual IT infrastructures
without adequate security stand to open up significant new vulnerabilities,
leaving businesses exposed to damage and valuable data
loss.
The
partnership of Kaspersky Lab’s anti-malware expertise and VMware vShield
Endpoint will help to address these risks, bringing significant benefits to
Kaspersky Lab and VMware customers.
VMware
vShield Endpoint streamlines and accelerates anti-virus and anti-malware
processing. It improves performance and enables 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, delivered by Kaspersky
Lab.
“Unveiling the Kaspersky Virtualization Security for VMware vShield
prototype for virtualisation at VMworld 2011 Europe will enable customers to
securely maintain state-of-the-art, multi-layered anti-malware strategies across
virtual environments and heterogeneous IT infrastructures, with a level of
performance and total cost of protection that truly meets their business needs,”
said Nikolay Grebennikov, Chief Technology Officer, Kaspersky Lab. “We very much
look forward to comments and feedback from the IT professionals on our specific
approach to securing their virtualised environments.”
“As a
leading provider of high-performance endpoint security solutions, VMware is
committed to working closely with Kaspersky to protect the rapidly growing
number of virtualised environments. We are collaborating with Kaspersky Lab to
deliver an integrated solution to secure and enhance the performance and
protection of our mutual clients,” said Parag Patel, Vice President, Global
Strategic Alliances, VMware.