Virtualisation Security

We have all witnessed the improved efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications through virtualisation. Based around technology developed by Trend Micro and rubber stamped by VMware, Secons consultants will help and advise you to increase consolidation rates, accelerate and complete your virtualisation journey, more fully leverage your VMware investments, and maximise your ROI.

Specifically we will help you by:

1. Preventing data breaches and business disruptions
   • Providing a line of defence at the VM itself.
   • Identifying suspicious activity and behaviour, and taking preventive measures, before it’s too late.
   • Detecting and blocking a broad range of threats to endpoints, including viruses, web threats, spyware, rootkits, network worms, and blended threats and preventing exposure to web threats.
   • Preventing unauthorized access over the network, and ensuring malware-free data storage.
   • Encrypting, and controlling access to data on cloud servers, and facilitating virtual data destruction, for data and applications deployed to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud service providers.
   • Stopping web and email threats at the gateway and ensuring email security and compliance.
2. Maximising consolidation rates, operational efficiency and reducing costs
   • Enabling higher consolidation rates of mission critical / Tier 1 applications, and the deployment of sensitive applications to the public cloud.
   • Reducing the performance impacts associated with full-system anti-malware scans, through serialisation.
   • Sharing threat intelligence amongst multiple virtual desktops, running on a single VDI server instead of on each virtual desktop. This reduces the number of queries to the local scan server and further improves scan performance.
   • Retrieving information about the status and location of secured virtual desktops to optimise resource utilization across the entire virtual desktop environment.
   • Providing vulnerability protection so that secure coding efforts can be prioritised, and unscheduled patching can be implemented more cost-effectively.
   • Providing comprehensive protection in a single, centrally managed software agent / virtual appliance, thus eliminating the need for, and costs associated with, deploying multiple software clients.
   • Enabling portability between cloud providers – and avoiding vendor lock-in – while still ensuring that data is virtually destroyed.
   • Reducing the configuration, installation, patching and testing time, and the overall administrative and management costs, associated with gateway security for email and web.
   • Lowering the overall cost of security management.
3. Ensuring compliance with security best practices, internal governance and external regulations
   • Addressing a broad range of security requirements identified by PCI and other standards.
   • Applying and enforcing a consistent set of security policies across virtualised desktops and servers.
   • Providing detailed, auditable reports that document prevented attacks and policy compliance status, and encryption policies for public cloud servers, and that better support an efficient audit process.

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