New McAfee Server Security Suites Offer Comprehensive Protection for the Hybrid Data Center
August 25 2014 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Recent Enhancements Maximize Performance and
Extend Visibility into Hybrid Data Centers
VMworld — Today McAfee, part of Intel Security, announced
key advancements to its Server Security Suites portfolio, which
includes performance optimization and additional management
efficiency to enhance security posture for servers deployed in
physical, virtualized and cloud environments. These improvements
strengthen an organization’s ability to discover workloads, achieve
greater visibility, apply comprehensive protection with granular
policy management, and expand server instances securely into the
public cloud.
McAfee Server Security Suite Essentials provides a complete set
of blacklisting and optimized virtualization support capabilities
for security on all types of servers. McAfee Server Security Suite
Advanced combines whitelisting with signature-based blacklisting to
provide zero-day and advanced persistent threat (APT) protection
without signature updates, resulting in quicker time-to-protection
with low performance overhead. Both of these suites come with
McAfee MOVE AV technology to provide advanced malware protection
for virtualized server environments and can be implemented across
multiple vendor platforms, or an agentless, tuned option for VMware
vShield. All of these capabilities are tightly integrated with
McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® software for efficient, centralized
risk assessment, incident resolution and security policy
management.
Significant amounts of data are stored on servers, putting them
at the top of a hacker's list; securing them is a top priority.
McAfee offers server security solutions that provide options for
business growth whether the foundation is built on physical,
virtualized or cloud environments. Assortments of key enhancements
ushered in with this release include:
- Simplified Security Virtual Appliance
(SVA) provisioning through the NSX composer for MOVE AV (Agentless)
deployments
- Increased visibility and control over
network communications between virtual machines with MOVE Agentless
Firewall leveraging VMware vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS), a
hypervisor-based solution for virtualized data centers
- Simplified security manageability with
a new SVA manager for MOVE AV (multi-platform) to more effectively
manage capacity and load for virtualized environments
- Improved resource optimization for
virtualized environments with improved diagnostics for AV
performance tuning and reduced resource utilization through
flexible tuning policies
- Automatically discover and manage
virtual machines as they are provisioned in private and public
clouds with two new additional McAfee Data Center Connectors for
Microsoft Azure and OpenStack to complement the two existing Data
Center Connectors for Amazon AWS and VMware vSphere
McAfee Server Security Suites deliver foundational elements to
secure servers that support the need of today’s data center to be
flexible and scalable to help drive business expansion whether the
underlying infrastructure is on-premises or off-premises.
“We have started the deployment of the new
McAfee MOVE AV 3.5 and it has been an extremely low touch and
effective roll out,” said Larry Harder, senior technical specialist
at MTSallstream. “McAfee provides the optimized management and
protection we need to secure our virtualized server
environment.”
“The enhanced McAfee MOVE AV 3.5 is a
significant advancement for our organization,” said Sander
Goudswaard, information IT specialist at N.V. Westerscheldetunnel.
“The new scan reporting feature enables us to proactively optimize
the scanning process by excluding frequently-scanned locations that
we consider safe.”
To protect highly virtualized data centers and support server
workloads, McAfee’s new server security suites include:
- McAfee Server Security Suite
Essentials – provides foundational server security protection
and management for physical, virtual, and cloud deployments.
Organizations have the ability to discover workloads for complete
security visibility. Blacklisting and virtualization support
technologies provide comprehensive security for key workloads on
physical and virtual servers with minimal CPU processing
overhead.
- McAfee Server Security Suite
Advanced – includes all the features of McAfee Server Security
Suite Essentials along with additional server security, including
whitelisting to protect against zero-day threats and change control
to meet regulatory requirements. It delivers the most comprehensive
server protection and management for physical, virtual, and cloud
deployments.
“Today’s flexible data centers require innovative solutions that
shield physical, virtual and cloud environments from stealthy
attacks,” said Candace Worley, senior vice president and general
manager of endpoint security at McAfee, part of Intel Security.
“Our Server Security Suites guard servers, the crown jewels of the
data center, with comprehensive protection, simplified security
management, improved scalability for large environments and
connections into key technologies throughout the data center.”
To see a demo of the newly enhanced McAfee Server Security
Suites along with other innovative solutions, such as Intel®
Security Controller, stop by the Intel booth #1721 at VMworld,
August 24-28.
For more information on the Server Security Suites, please visit
McAfee at: www.mcafee.com/datacenter.
About McAfee
McAfee, part of Intel Security and a wholly owned subsidiary of
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), empowers businesses, the public
sector, and home users to safely experience the benefits of the
Internet. The company delivers proactive and proven security
solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile devices
around the world. With its Security Connected strategy, innovative
approach to hardware-enhanced security, and unique Global Threat
Intelligence network, McAfee is relentlessly focused on keeping its
customers safe. http://www.mcafee.com
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