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KASPERSKY SECURITY FOR VIRTUALIZATION- Agentless anti-malware solutions
- Improved system utilization
- Simplified deployment & management
Business Benefits
Features
Applications Inside
Advanced anti-malware
Kaspersky’s award-winning anti-malware engine achieves superior detection rates – to help protect your physical and virtualized computing environment from new and increasingly sophisticated threats.
Easy to manage
Kaspersky Security Center – which is available at no additional cost – gives your IT team a single, unified management console that can manage the security of virtual machines, physical machines and mobile devices.
Supporting business progress
By making it easier for your team to manage hybrid environments – including virtualized and conventional platforms – Kaspersky Security for Virtualization helps you to introduce virtualization at a pace that’s right for your business.
Improved return on investment (ROI)
Because Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is an agentless solution, it helps businesses to achieve higher virtualization density and performance – helping to generate a higher return on investment.
Superior security for virtualized environments
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization has been specifically developed for virtualized IT infrastructure:
A single, centralized anti-malware solution can protect all virtual machines on a physical server
Kaspersky’s industry-leading frequency of anti-malware updates helps to minimize vulnerability and protect against new threats
Powerful remediation capabilities disinfect malware
The solution provides agentless protection for virtual machines that run on a wide range of Windows operating systems
Reducing costs – by simplifying administration
Advanced management features help to simplify administration tasks and eliminate security gaps:
Instead of having to install and manage protection on every virtual machine, a single instance of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization can protect all virtual machines on a physical server
Physical and virtual endpoints are discovered dynamically
New virtual machines are automatically provided with anti-malware protection – to help eliminate security gaps and misconfigurations
Administrators can adapt security settings to suit different applications and workloads
Many of the traditional, agent-based anti-malware products are not well suited to virtualized environments. Virtualization is all about maximizing the utilization rates for the IT infrastructure - in order to maximize return on investment. However, many agent-based anti-malware products require the antivirus software and signature database to be installed on every virtual machine… which partly defeats the object of virtualization.
Agent-based disadvantages
Duplication of antivirus software and signature database - for every virtual machine - reduces virtualization density and reduces return on investment (ROI)
Duplication of file scanning of the base-line image - reduces overall system performance
When a dormant virtual machine is activated, it may have an out-of-date signature database or un-patched vulnerabilities
'Scanning Storms' - whereby multiple virtual machines are simultaneously running scans - can adversely affect the performance of the host machine… or even cause a crash
'Update Storms' - whereby multiple virtual machines simultaneously download antivirus updates - can adversely affect the performance of the host machine... or cause it to crash
Kaspersky's agentless solution
Because Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is an agentless anti-malware solution, it only has to be installed once on a physical server... in order to protect all virtual machines on that server.
Higher density virtualization - as there is no duplication of antivirus software and signature database.
Improved performance - from higher efficiency scanning.
Automatic protection for newly configured virtual machines and dormant virtual machines that are activated.
All updates of the anti-malware engine and signature database only need to be performed once per physical server not once per virtual machine… so 'Update Storms' are eliminated.
Intelligent, load-balancing mechanisms help to guard against overload and limit the number of concurrent scans... so 'Scanning Storms' are prevented
Applications inside Kaspersky Security for Virtualization:
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization
View system requirements for each application by clicking on the item in the application list above.
