Kaspersky Security for Virtualization

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization – built for the unique requirements of virtualised IT environments – delivers award-winning anti-malware protection for virtualised servers, desktops and data centres.

Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is an agentless anti-malware solution that provides a more efficient way to protect your virtualised infrastructure – with greater performance and less impact on virtualisation density. The application is easy to deploy and includes advanced management features that simplify a wide range of security tasks – across both physical and virtual computing assets.

With Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, you can benefit from superior protection – for all of your virtual machines – while also improving your system utilisation rates, reducing the burden on your IT administration and security personnel… and increasing your overall return on investment (ROI

Solution Highlights

Advanced anti-malware Kaspersky’s award-winning anti-malware engine achieves superior detection rates – to help protect your physical and virtualised 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 virtualised and conventional platforms – Kaspersky Security for Virtualization helps you to introduce virtualisation 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 virtualisation density and performance – helping to generate a higher return on investment.

Additional Benefits

Superior security for virtualised environments Kaspersky Security for Virtualization has been specifically developed for virtualised IT infrastructure:
- A single, centralised anti-malware solution can protect all virtual machines on a physical server
- Kaspersky’s industry-leading frequency of anti-malware updates helps to minimise 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

Kaspersky Lab has released a new version of its virtualization security solution, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Agentless. Designed to provide protection within software-defined data centers built on VMware vSphere® and VMware NSX®, the solution now delivers advanced security capabilities for each virtual machine and virtual network with nearly no impact on the virtualized platform’s resources.

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