Kaspersky Security for Virtualization, Core
Superior, flexible and efficient protection for virtual core environments
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Overview:
Why Kaspersky Security for Virtualization?
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization - built for the unique requirements of virtualized IT environments - delivers award-winning anti-malware protection for virtualized servers, desktops and data centers.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is an agentless anti-malware solution that provides a more efficient way to protect your virtualized infrastructure - with greater performance and less impact on virtualization 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 utilization rates, reducing the burden on your IT administration and security personnel… and increasing your overall return on investment (ROI).
Highlights
Outstanding Protection
- Supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V* and Citrix Xen* platforms and core technologies.
- Powerful, multi-layered anti-malware, including Automatic Exploit Prevention.
- Integration with the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) proactively defends against emerging global threats.
- Application controls (incorporating dynamic whitelisting) plus web and device controls allow the administrator to enforce policies, keeping users safe and productive.
- A powerful combination of network attack blocker, firewall, Host-based Intrusion Prevention (HIPS) and anti-phishing technologies protect VMs from network threats.
- VMs are instantly and automatically protected by a Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) which is continuously updated.
Better Performance
- Innovative design ensures a light resource footprint, optimising consolidation ratios for maximum density.
- Shared cache technology eliminates duplication of scanning effort.
- Anti-virus update and scanning ‘storms’ as well as ‘instant-on’ gaps are eliminated.
Greater Efficiency
- Fast, straightforward deployment to new VMs, with no reboot or maintenance mode required.
- A single console allows physical, mobile and virtual endpoints to be managed together.
- Simplified administration and deployment delivers greater efficiency and less opportunity for configuration error.
Outstanding Flexibility
- Citrix, Microsoft and VMware platform security are all included in a single cost.
- Flexible licensing — choose from licensing based on number of machines (desktops or servers) or resources (number of cores).
Key Product Features
- Centralized management via Kaspersky Security Center
- Centralized SVA based VM protection
- Advanced threat protection including Automatic Exploit Prevention
- Virtual network protection including HIPS, firewall and Network Attack Blocker
- Endpoint controls for applications, web access and peripherals
- Cloud-assisted security via Kaspersky Security Network
- Antivirus and anti-phishing for IM, mail and Internet traffic
- No additional installation or reboots for new VMs*
Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) and Lightweight Agent
Kaspersky Lab’s Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) centrally scans all VMs in the host environment. This architecture provides efficient VM protection without sacrificing endpoint resources, resulting in greater consolidation ratios than are achievable using traditional antivirus solutions. AV scanning and update storms are eliminated, together with ‘instanton’ gaps.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization also includes a powerful but lightweight agent which is deployed on each virtual machine. This allows for the activation of advanced endpoint security features including vulnerability monitoring, application, device and web controls, anti-virus protection for instant messaging, mail and web, plus advanced heuristics. The result is powerful, multilayered security combined with efficient performance.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix Xen platforms and their core technologies.
Optional agentless configuration for VMware environments
For VMware based internal environments where zero downtime with no reboots is a mandatory requirement, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization can be deployed in an agentless configuration.
* For non-persistent VMs, instant protection is available after the agent is executed on the VM image. For persistent VMs, the administrator must deploy the light agent during installation.
Business Benefits:
Security designed specifically for virtualized infrastructures
Because Kaspersky Security for Virtualization has been specifically developed to protect virtual machines (VMs), it helps businesses maintain a high machine density and high performance – protecting your virtualization ROI while eliminating update and scanning 'storms', as well as Windows of Vulnerability or 'instant-on' gaps.
Preserves virtualization platform performance
For virtualized environments, maintaining security without affecting performance is critical. Kaspersky Security for Virtualization delivers a far lighter resource footprint than traditional solutions, optimizing file-level scanning tasks, fine-tuning protection technologies and orchestrating scanning tasks to preserve virtualization platform performance.
Instead of a traditional security agent installed on every virtual machine, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization offers a more efficient way to protect your virtualized environment –placing less load on processors, memory, storage and I/O:
- Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, KVM and VMware vSphere environments can be secured through a single (SVA) Security Virtual Appliance on each virtual host, and a very lightweight agent installed on each VM.
- Alternatively, VMware vSphere environments can also be secured with an agentless security solution – so just one instance of the security software protects every VM running on each virtualization host.
Preserves fast log-on and application responses for VDI
Our solution architecture dramatically enhances end-user experience, promoting improved VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) security, without sacrificing performance or important parameters like log-on time and boot time.
Award-winning anti-malware delivers superior security for your systems
Kaspersky Lab's latest anti-malware engine combines signature-based, proactive and cloud-assisted technologies, to deliver superior detection rates – including protection against zero-day threats.
Easy-to-use, central management console saves time for your IT team
A single, unified administration console lets your IT team centrally manage the security of all your VMs plus other Kaspersky Lab security applications you're running on physical infrastructure and mobile devices. By making it easier for your team to manage hybrid environments –combining virtual, physical and mobile platforms – Kaspersky Lab helps you to roll out virtualization projects at your own pace.
Flexible licensing helps you control costs
Because we offer you a choice of 'per machine' – including 'per desktop' and 'per server' – or 'per core' licensing options, you can choose the most cost-effective licensing model for your business needs. Choose our agentless security solution, move forward with our light agent solution, or use a combination of both – one license fits all.
Features:
File-level anti-malware
Kaspersky's award-winning anti-malware engine provides automatic, real-time protection for every virtual machine (VM) – on-access and on-demand – for most popular virtualization platforms including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and KVM.
Performance optimization
A dedicated Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) installed onto a hypervisor allows the off-loading of file scanning tasks, minimizing any impact on VM operations and performance. Peaks in resource consumption are also reduced via intelligent scan task orchestration, automating queues by grouping and prioritizing scan tasks on multiple VMs.
Shared Cache
In large-scale environments, files are often duplicated across multiple VMs. Unlike legacy security products, which scan every instance of the file on each VM, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization includes Shared Cache technology. A single instance of multiple identical files is scanned and the verdict is stored in the shared cache, significantly reducing scanning activity and improving overall VM performance.
Advanced network protection
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization also provides network protection functionality. Depending on the configuration, this is delivered either via a dedicated SVA or through guest machine-based mechanisms. In the latter, a flexible Application Firewall allows network governance not only at protocol, but also at applications level. Network Attack Blocker is a compact yet powerful IDS/IPS system capable of recognizing and blocking both known and unknown network-based attacks, including those using specific exploits.
Multi-layered security for VDI environments
Outstanding multi-layered protection for VMware Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop, which impacts neither end-user experience nor VDI platform responsiveness. Our lightweight solution delivers superior security for VDI, providing protection against advanced threats (crypto malware, zero-day exploits, unpatched vulnerabilities, etc.). We achieve this by layering threat detection and blocking technologies (including heuristics, behavior analysis and Automatic Exploit Prevention (AEP)) over traditional file-level protection. Additional proactive security layers such as Web, Device and Application Controls further promote significantly increased resilience to attacks.
Central management console
Kaspersky Security Center gives administrators a 'single-pane-of-glass' view of all endpoints being protected by Kaspersky technologies – including virtual, physical and mobile devices.
Cloud-assisted security
Integration with the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) proactively defends virtual servers and desktops against emerging global malware; new threats can be identified in as little as 0.02 seconds.
NSX compatibility
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization adds yet another layer of security to VMware NSX-enabled environments, providing file-level protection via native NSX Guest Introspection. Please note that, VMware NSX, like any other software-defined network technology, is not a pre-requisite for Kaspersky Security for Virtualization deployment.
Applications Inside:
Applications inside Kaspersky Security for Virtualization:
- Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Agentless
- Kaspersky Security for Virtualization | Light Agent
- Kaspersky Security Center
For more information on each application – including system requirements – click on the item in the list above.
Documentation:
Download the Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Datasheet (PDF).
Pricing Notes:
- Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.
- Customers purchasing 50 licenses or more can receive an additional discount with registration. Please request a quote today to see if you qualify for an additional upfront discount on your license purchase!