Kaspersky Security for Virtualization

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

Agentless Advantages

Many of the traditional, agent-based anti-malware products are not well suited to virtualised environments. Virtualisation is all about maximising the utilisation rates for the IT infrastructure – in order to maximise return on investment. However, many agent-based anti-malware products require the antivirus software and signature database to be installed on every virtual machine… which partly defeats the object of virtualisation.

Agent-based disadvantages:

• Duplication of antivirus software and signature database – for every virtual machine – reduces virtualisation density and reduces return on investment (ROI)
• Duplication of file scanning of the base-line image – reduces overall system performance
• When a dormant virtual machine is activated, it may have an out-of-date signature database or un-patched vulnerabilities
• ‘Scanning Storms’ – whereby multiple virtual machines are simultaneously running scans – can adversely affect the performance of the host machine… or even cause a crash
• ‘Update Storms’ – whereby multiple virtual machines simultaneously download antivirus updates – can adversely affect the performance of the host machine… or cause it to crash

Kaspersky’s agentless solution:

Because Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is an agentless anti-malware solution, it only has to be installed once on a physical server… in order to protect all virtual machines on that server.

• Higher density virtualisation – as there is no duplication of antivirus software and signature database
• Improved performance – from higher efficiency scanning
• Automatic protection for newly configured virtual machines and dormant virtual machines that are activated
• All updates of the anti-malware engine and signature database only need to be performed once per physical server – not once per virtual machine… so ‘Update Storms’ are eliminated
• Intelligent, load-balancing mechanisms help to guard against overload and limit the number of concurrent scans… so ‘Scanning Storms’ are prevented

Applications inside

Applications inside Kaspersky Security for Virtualization:

• New!  Kaspersky Security for Virtualization
• Kaspersky Security Center

You can view technical details and system requirements for each of the applications inside Kaspersky Security for Virtualization by visiting the individual application pages above.