McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images Overview:

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images — the first dedicated security solution for virtual machines (VMs) — protects your virtual environment and corporate network by automatically scanning, cleaning, and updating VMs before they go online.

VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images offers:

An optimized solution — Developed specifically to work with all major virtualization environments, including Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware.

Scalable security — Provides on-demand protection for an unlimited number of VMs.

Comprehensive, cost-effective protection — Reduces IT overhead with integrated protection for pre-production (testing and development) and production (disaster recovery) virtual environments.

Description:

Enterprises are rapidly adopting virtualization; according to Gartner, as many as one out of every four IT workloads is on a virtual machine (VM). One of the key advantages of VMs is that enterprise applications are easier to provision and deploy than with physical servers. In some instances, it can take as little as 15 minutes to bring up an application on a VM. But the consequence of easy deployment is VM proliferation, with more and more VMs created throughout the IT environment-even for small workloads. The VMs need to be periodically brought offline for patching, configuration, testing, and backup. Some archived VMs may stay offline for long periods of time to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Generally, VMs that are dormant for an extended period of time are not updated with the latest patches. When these archived VMs are activated again, their anti-malware security profiles are precariously out of date, and they are riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities that can potentially put an organization's entire virtual infrastructure at risk.

McAfee, the security vendor of choice for global enterprises, has extended its trusted expertise to virtualized environments with the first security solution purpose-built for offline VMs. With McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images, your organization can ensure that your VMs are secure and reduce the IT effort and operating costs with common security management for both physical and virtual environments. The solution scans, cleans and updates the anti-malware security profile of dormant VMs-without having to bring them online. When offline VMs are finally brought back online, they are already scanned, cleaned and fully secure with updated signatures, so they no longer pose a threat to the IT environment. Because the scanning, cleaning and signature update process is automated, the IT burden of bringing VMs back online from time to time for security patches, updates, and maintenance is greatly reduced.

Deploying McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images

Benefits and Features:

System Requirements:

These are minimum system requirements. Actual requirements will vary depending on the nature of your environment.

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher (no support for XP 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit; no support for Server Cores)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (no support for Server 2003 64-bit)

Supported VMware Images

• Supports images using the Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification
• Microsoft Windows 7, all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

Supported Microsoft Virtual PC Images

• Supports images using the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk Image Format specification
• Microsoft Windows Vista base or higher (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows XP with SP1 or higher (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with SP4
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or higher: Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions (includes 64-bit)

Documentation:

Download the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Offline Virtual Images Datasheet (PDF).