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McAfee VirusScan® Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images
Purpose-built security for virtual environments
When anti-malware security profile of the offline virtual machines is out-of-date, they could pose a risk to the entire IT infrastructure. Secure them when they are still offline, so they no longer pose a risk when brought back online.
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Benefits and Features
Benefits:
- Reduce IT overhead to administer virtual environments
Anti-malware security profiles of offline virtual machines are updated automatically without having to bring virtual machines online, reducing the risk of infecting the rest of the virtual environment. - Ensure security for virtual machines.
Automatically scan, clean and update virtual machines while offline, to eliminate the risk of dormant virtual machines threatening the corporate network. - Achieve efficiencies with security management.
Minimize IT efforts and reduce operating costs with common security management for both physical and virtual environments. Reduce IT migration issues with a single solution that provides support for top virtualization vendors. - Minimize administration headaches.
With a single solution there’s no need to purchase multiple, difficult-to-manage point products for each type of virtual environment. Supported vendors include Microsoft and VMware and the solution scans ISO images. - Improve disaster recovery.
Ensure that backup virtual images are up-to-date with respect to malware signatures before they go into production.
Features:
- First purpose-built security solution for offline virtual machines.
A cost-effective, efficient security solution for VMs is a critical and often overlooked aspect to an organization’s overall security posture. VSE for Offline Virtual Images is the only security solution of its kind purpose-built for offline VMs. - Improved real-time disaster recovery
When offline virtual machines are brought back online, signature files are up-to-date, so virtual machines no longer pose a risk to the virtual environment. - Powerful protection for testing and development
Keep anti-malware protection up to date in testing and development environments, where there is often a proliferation of virtual machines. - On demand security and flexibility
Ensure that virtual images are up-to-date with respect to malware signatures before they go into production. On demand security for an unlimited number of virtual machines provides maximum scalability and flexibility. - Single security solution for virtualized environments
Reduce IT migration issues with a single security solution for all major virtualization environments including VMware and Microsoft. - Unified solution for development and production
Mitigate IT overhead with a unified security solution for production (disaster recovery) and pre-production (testing and development) virtual environments.
Description:
Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization; according to Gartner, as many as one out of every four IT workloads is on a virtual machine (VM). One of the key advantages of VMs is that enterprise applications are easier to provision and deploy than with physical servers. In some instances, it can take as little as 15 minutes to bring up an application on a VM. But the consequence of easy deployment is VM proliferation, with more and more VMs created throughout the IT environment-even for small workloads. The VMs need to be periodically brought offline for patching, configuration, testing, and backup. Some archived VMs may stay offline for long periods of time to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
Generally, VMs that are dormant for an extended period of time are not updated with the latest patches. When these archived VMs are activated again, their anti-malware security profiles are precariously out of date, and they are riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities that can potentially put an organization's entire virtual infrastructure at risk.
McAfee, the security vendor of choice for global enterprises, has extended its trusted expertise to virtualized environments with the first security solution purpose-built for offline VMs. With McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images, your organization can ensure that your VMs are secure and reduce the IT effort and operating costs with common security management for both physical and virtual environments. The solution scans, cleans and updates the anti-malware security profile of dormant VMs-without having to bring them online. When offline VMs are finally brought back online, they are already scanned, cleaned and fully secure with updated signatures, so they no longer pose a threat to the IT environment. Because the scanning, cleaning and signature update process is automated, the IT burden of bringing VMs back online from time to time for security patches, updates, and maintenance is greatly reduced.
System Requirements:
Note: The following are minimum system requirements only. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.
Supported Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and above (no support for XP 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista base and above (includes 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions (no support for 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions including 64-bit (no support for Server Cores)
Supported VMware Images
- Supports images using the Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
- Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and above (includes 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista base and above (includes 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions, including 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions including 64-bit
Supported Microsoft Virtual PC Images
- Supports images using the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk
- Image Format specification
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
- Microsoft Windows XP SP1 and above (includes 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Vista base and above (includes 64-bit)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions, including 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions including 64-bit
