Managed Security Services for VMware, VShield, vCloud Air
Whether your deployments are on-premises, in a public cloud (multi tenant like vCloud Air, AWS, Azure), private cloud or a hybrid.
> Protect your virtual data centres, servers and desktop environments
Is management of a virtualised environment a major concern? Does your business need a service and technology that helps you secure your virtual environments?
Whether you are trying to prevent unauthorised access, maintaining isolation and separation of systems, discovering and monitoring sensitive data, or consolidating log monitoring across virtual and physical infrastructure, with Symantec you can confidently accelerate your virtualisation initiatives to include even the most critical of applications and services.
What is vShield
Host firewall and VPN (enforce trust zones / segmentation), file integrity monitoring, rootkit protection and data leak prevention.
Enables third party security vendor solutions to integrate without adding additional agents to the machine / hypervisor = reduces bottlenecks in performance and helps accelerate audit and compliance.
Filling in the security blanks with integrated VMware / vShield technology and services
 Protect your
investments and data in public cloud (vCloud Air, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) |
Intrusion prevention (IDS / IPS, Web application
protection, and application control) |
| Always on 24x7
monitoring and protection |
Prevent
configuration file tampering |
| Rapid and
proactive incident response and remediation |
Limit
inbound/outbound communications and access |
| Integrated
solutions with virtual VMware vShield and network platforms to strengthen
security management and policy enforcement. |
Stop unauthorised
services from running and prevent zero day attacks against un-patched or
vulnerable systems. |
Compliance
Automate virtual system scanning.
Encryption
Solution for encryption with simple, policy-based key management for data stored in physical, virtual, and cloud servers, supporting both vSphere and vCloud environments.
No security agent management - agentless
Utilise or integrate 3rd party solutions with VMware vShield Endpoint.
Data Loss Prevention
Integrates with vShield to discover sensitive data residing in virtual datacenters and automatically quarantine virtual machines that violate data security policies.
vShield Endpoint Protection
Leverage vShield Endpoint with its endpoint security offerings to offload critical security analysis from protected virtual machines to a dedicated security virtual appliance resulting in optimised scan performance, reduced resource utilisation, and increased management visibility.
Log Inspection and Correlation
Centralised security console to identify important security events buried in multiple log entries; and, forward suspicious events to an SIEM system or centralised logging server for correlation, reporting and archiving.
Application Scanning
Scan applications and platforms continuously. Expert testing and false positive removal guards against the latest vulnerabilities without the administrative pain.
Also see
> more VMware Security Solutions
> vCloud Air Protection