5nine Software delivers agentless/host-based security for all versions of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server, and today announced the availability of their agentless security plug-in for Microsoft System Center.

5nine Security for Hyper-V delivers a multi-layered agentless security solution including anti-virus, virtual firewall and intrusion detection (IDS). Now this remarkable product is available with a plug-in to Microsoft System Center, which allows all features and functions of this security solution to be set up and managed through the System Center Virtual Machine Manager controls. This integration is seamless and builds on the architecture of System Center Virtual Machine Manager extensions.

"Our enterprise and hosting clients have enjoyed the formidable security and small resource consumption of our agentless security but have regularly requested we integrate with System Center to make administration and deployment more simple. We have listened to our clients and are proud to deliver the seamless integration to System Center Virtual Machine Manager controls," says Dr. Konstantin Malkov, CTO of 5nine Software.

"Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 SP1 delivered groundbreaking innovation in virtualization, and we’re pleased to see 5nine building on that strong foundation to give customers an agentless security plugin," said Brian Hillger, Director, Microsoft Marketing. "5nine has a long history of delivering add-on security solutions for Microsoft platforms, and this agentless security plug-in reflects 5nine’s commitment to helping customers add additional security capabilities for Windows Server Hyper-V."

The 5nine Security for Hyper-V System Center Virtual Machine Manager plug-in runs on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Hyper-V, Windows 8 and 8.1, as well as Hyper-V Server 2012 and 2012 R2.

A complete overview of the 5nine Security for Hyper-V System Center plug-in is available here: http://www.5nine.com/system-center-5nine-security-manager-extensions-plugins.aspx.T