Agentless anti-malware for VMware-virtualized datacenters

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Trend Micro has unveiled an anti-malware solution that leverages the new VMware vShield Endpoint.

According to a company release, VMware vShield Endpoint strengthens security for virtual machines and their hosts while significantly improving performance for virtual machine (VM) protection by offloading anti-malware processing to dedicated security-hardened virtual machines delivered by VMware partners.

Integrating VMware vShield Endpoint APIs has enabled Trend Micro to create anti-malware protection for VMs without requiring a third-party agent to be installed on each VM, thereby reducing memory and CPU load. As a result, Trend Micro is able to provide anti-malware protection for VMs, while minimizing performance and operational impact.

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“VMware vShield Endpoint further demonstrates VMware’s ongoing commitment to security,” said Parag Patel, vice president, global strategic alliances, VMware. “Security solutions like Trend Micro Deep Security that leverage this new technology enable VMware vSphere customers to secure their virtualized desktops and servers while minimizing performance and operational impact. Customers can accelerate their virtualization investments, achieve higher VM consolidation rates and reap greater operational expenditure savings, while helping to ensure compliance with regulations and corporate policies.”

Trend Micro delivers agentless anti-malware for VMware through Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5, which was also announced today (please see press release here). Deep Security provides advanced protection for virtualized systems, and the latest version includes agentless anti-malware, together with IDS/IPS, web application protection, firewall, integrity monitoring and log inspection modules.

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“As an early VMware security partner, Trend Micro has been heavily committed to delivering solutions that are tightly integrated with and fully leverage VMware technologies,” said Wael Mohamed, senior vice president of business development, Trend Micro. “The availability of VMware vShield Endpoint is an important step forward for customers, as it has allowed us to deliver a solution that does not require the installation of security software onto each VM. This further conserves the performance and memory of the server, and allows enterprises to consolidate more VMs on each server.”