Kaspersky to launch VMware vShield Endpoint security solution at CeBIT

This week at VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas IT security company Kaspersky Lab publicly announced their Anti-Virus solution for VMware vShield Endpoint security framework. Kaspersky will join Bitdefender and Trend Micro as pioneers in Cloud Security by offering Anti-Virus solution to support VMware vShield Endpoint 5. VMware vShield Endpoint offloads Anti-Virus scanning from VM to a special virtual security appliance which frees computing resources and improves AV solution manageability by removing need to maintain full fledged AV agent in each protected VM.

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization will be officially launched at CeBIT trade fair in Hannover Germany on 6th of March 2012.

Citing Kaspersky Security for Virtualization annoucement

The launch of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization follows the highly successful introduction of Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 in October 2011. It means that Kaspersky Lab will be able to offer customers a single, unified management and security platform across their entire virtual, physical and mobile environments. Combined with Kaspersky Lab’s sophisticated anti-malware protection, this unified approach will provide users with an unrivalled mix of easy administration and next-generation protection. More information about the portfolio can be found at: http://www.kaspersky.com/beready.

Using the vShield Endpoint Security framework, the centrally managed Kaspersky Security for Virtualization will automatically detect, scan, protect and update every virtual machine on the network, including virtual data centres, servers and desktops. New machines will be protected automatically when they are added to the network.

Full press release by Kaspersky Lab is available at http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/product/2012/Kaspersky_Lab_announces_its_security_solution_for_virtual_environments