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Woburn, MA – August 23, 2016 –Kaspersky Lab today announced it has extended the company’s collaboration with VMware to help enhance security capabilities of today’s software-defined data centers. Kaspersky Lab, a VMware TAP Elite partner, now joins the VMware NSX® Partner Program to further improve protection of business-critical data for enterprises.

Upon shipping the newest release of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, this expanded relationship will give mutual customers the ability to deploy cutting-edge virtualized platforms for business critical workloads, empowered by a security solution which easily follows all infrastructure and network topology changes to defend the entire organization and its infrastructure from external and internal threats as well as from known or unknown vulnerabilities.

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization will add enhanced protection levels for the software-defined data center through interoperability with the VMware NSX platform, implementing industry leading anti-malware and network protection capabilities to virtualized environments with minimal impact on valuable common resources. This will help businesses maintain high performance for the entire virtualized infrastructure − crucial for business reliability and efficiency.

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is specifically designed to work in virtualized infrastructure, and with VMware NSX interoperability, it will advance built-in protection capabilities for the software-defined data center and hybrid cloud:

  • Permanent antivirus protection with no agents inside VMs.
  • Advanced Intrusion Prevention (IPS) functionality for virtualized networks.
  • Integration with security policies and tagging for superb, automated protection workflow.
  • Security deployment automation and scalability.
  • Optimized antimalware and file protection task orchestration.

Kaspersky Lab is a leader in enterprise security industry and has a solid portfolio of advanced security solutions for businesses. Since 2011, Kaspersky has delivered VMware specialized security solutions for virtualized environments. The interoperable Kaspersky Labs and VMware NSX is expected to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2016.

“We have worked with VMware for many years. Kaspersky Lab is able to bring advanced security capabilities into corporate virtualized environments,” said Vitaly Mzokov, Solution Business Lead Data Center & Virtualization Security Kaspersky Lab. “Interoperability with VMware NSX will allow our customers to bring security of their software-defined data centers to a new level, protecting their virtual servers, workstations and data centers from malware, network attack and zero-day threats with no impact on platform performance.”

“VMware relies on a strong and mature security partner ecosystem to help deliver the highest levels of protection for business-critical apps and data,” said Geoff Huang, Senior Director, Product Marketing, NSBU at VMware. “Kaspersky Lab provides customer-proven anti-malware products and security intelligence which can leverage the NSX platform to help take security of software-defined data centers to a new level.”

The application-centric model of the software-defined data, and security automation and provisioning capabilities of VMware NSX, will enable fully automated deployment and scalability of the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization.

“Deploying Kaspersky Security for Virtualization (KSV) has solved two fundamental challenges with deploying endpoint protection in LKQ’s virtual environment,” said David Matthewman, the Director IT Security and Governance, at LKQ Corporation. “Firstly, the performance cost both in I/O and CPU cycles required to run traditional endpoint protection solutions per guest host is negated as is the inevitable request “to turn off the protection for performance reasons” whether based in fact or not, and secondly the ability to deploy the KSV at the hypervisor layer without requiring a restart, avoiding the shut down and restart of thousands of guest hosts and the negotiation headache with the business and application owners that presents.”

Kaspersky Lab’s security experts will be joining VMware at VMworld 2016, August 28 – September 1 in Las Vegas, NV. Check out our conference activities and stop by our booth #2201: http://usa.kaspersky.com/vmworld-2016

For more information about Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, visit: http://www.kaspersky.com/enterprise-security/virtualization

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is one of the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and the largest that is privately-owned. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users (IDC, 2014). Since 1997 Kaspersky Lab has been an innovator in cybersecurity and provides effective digital security solutions and threat intelligence for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab is an international company, operating in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide.

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Kaspersky Lab Joins the VMware NSX Partner Program to Bring Security of Software-Defined Data Centers to the Next Level

Kaspersky Lab has extended the company’s collaboration with VMware to help enhance security capabilities of today’s software-defined data centers.
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