Kaspersky Lab has extended the company’s collaboration with VMware to help enhance security capabilities of today’s software-defined data centres. Kaspersky Lab, a VMware TAP Elite partner, now joins the VMware NSX Partner Program to further improve protection of business-critical data for enterprises.
Upon shipping the newest release of Kaspersky Security for Virtualisation, this expanded relationship will give mutual customers the ability to deploy cutting-edge virtualised platforms for business critical workloads, empowered by a security solution which easily follows all infrastructure and network topology changes to defend the entire organisation and its infrastructure from external and internal threats as well as from known or unknown vulnerabilities.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualisation will add enhanced protection levels for the software-defined data centre through interoperability with the VMware NSX platform, implementing industry leading anti-malware and network protection capabilities to virtualised environments with minimal impact on valuable common resources. This will help businesses maintain superior performance for the entire virtualised infrastructure ? crucial for business reliability and efficiency.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualisation is specifically designed to work in virtualised infrastructure, and with VMware NSX interoperability, it will advance built-in protection capabilities for the software-defined data centre and hybrid cloud:
- Permanent antivirus protection with no agents inside VMs.
- Advanced Intrusion Prevention (IPS) functionality for virtualised networks.
- Integration with security policies and tagging for superior, automated protection workflow.
- Security deployment automation and scalability.
- Optimised antimalware and file protection task orchestration.
Kaspersky Lab is a leader in enterprise security industry and has a solid portfolio of advanced security solutions for businesses. Since 2011, Kaspersky has delivered VMware specialised security solutions for virtualised environments. The interoperable Kaspersky Lab and VMware NSX is expected to be generally available in the fourth quarter of 2016.
“We have worked with VMware for many years. Kaspersky Lab is able to bring advanced security capabilities into corporate virtualised environments. Interoperability with VMware NSX will allow our customers to bring security of their software-defined data centres to a new level, protecting their virtual servers, workstations and data centres from malware, network attack and zero-day threats with no impact on platform performance,” comments Vitaly Mzokov, Solution Business Lead Data Center & Virtualisation Security, at Kaspersky Lab.
