Enterprises continue to achieve major cost savings and operational benefits by virtualizing their non-mission critical workloads. This class of applications was initially virtualized due to their minimal security and compliance requirements.

Virtualizing Tier 1 and compliance workloads can present new and daunting security challenges and, as a result, virtualization initiatives in these environments often lose momentum and even stall. The governance, security, and compliance needs of critical applications are substantially greater than the needs of less critical workloads, and virtualization platforms were not originally designed to meet all of those elevated needs.

McAfee and HyTrust have developed an integrated solution that mitigates the security and regulatory compliance challenges of Tier 1 workloads in VMware environments. It provides:

• End-to-end security for virtual machines and the virtual infrastructure
• Verifiable compliance enabled by virtual infrastructure access controls and audit log data
• Virtual platform hardening, including platform trust verification with Intel TXT
• HyTrust integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) software

New chain of trust for virtual data center.

HyTrust Appliance v3.0 and McAfee ePO 4.6.

Data integration: HyTrust monitors infrastructure changes, platform trust status changes, and attempted policy violations in the virtual infrastructure and sends alerts to McAfee ePO dashboards.

The integration is available directly from HyTrust with the products that comprise the McAfee Compatible solution.