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Trend Micro Broadens Virtualization Security Strategy, Extends Product Portfolio For Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Security
Published Jun 9, 2010
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Trend Micro announced it is broadening its virtualization security portfolio to enable enterprises to fully leverage the benefits of their virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). Trend Micro’s strategy for VDI is comprehensive in terms of protection technologies, flexible in terms of VDI-deployment scenarios and proven, having been on the market securing VDI environments and enabling maximum ROI since 2009. The company’s latest VDI-aware product, Trend Micro™ OfficeScan 10.5, was also announced today and rounds out Trend Micro’s virtualization and VDI portfolio. [See the multimedia announcement for Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.5 here]
“Our latest virtualization and VDI innovations are examples of our strategy to create security for virtualized and cloud-based environments. Our goal is to enable customers to fully benefit from virtualization initiatives, without security imposing performance or scalability constraints,” said Steve Quane, Chief Product Officer, Trend Micro. “We believe that even though virtual desktop deployments are still in the early stages of adoption by enterprises, it will become increasingly popular over time. As early innovators in virtualization security, and with deep relationships with all key providers in the virtualization ecosystem, we’re in the best position to bring-to-market the most comprehensive and flexible VDI solutions available – both now and in the future.”
- How is Trend Micro already securing and enabling the VDI landscape?
Different VDI scenarios require tailored solution approaches, and the reason why Trend Micro is already creating products and solutions that meet varied security needs. Enterprises can choose virtual appliance-based VDI security solutions that are more easily provisioned, managed, and can also be lighter on the host. Now, they also have the option of in-guest, agent-based VDI security solutions, which provide flexible security levels for comprehensive protection that’s backed by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure for faster, lighter, cloud-based protection.
- Ahead of the game, Trend Micro delivers security solutions tailored to the specific needs of both virtualized and physical environments:
- Trend Micro™ Core Protection for Virtual Machines is the industry’s first anti-malware product built on hypervisor-based APIs such as VMsafe and specifically designed to secure active and dormant virtual machines. Available since July 2009, it delivers purpose-built anti-malware for VMware environments.
- Trend Micro™ Deep Security, available since November 2009, is the industry’s first security solution designed to provide intrusion defense for both virtual and physical systems leveraging both VMsafe-based virtual appliances and in-guest agents.
- Trend Micro OfficeScan 10.5, announced and scheduled to be available at the end of July, provides the industry’s first hypervisor “agnostic” endpoint protection for VDI desktops in either VMware or Citrix environments.
- Supporting quotes:
“Trend Micro is very well positioned to move its leading PC security defenses into a virtualization environment because of its integration with all key virtualization vendors and its recognition that virtual desktop environments are different than physical desktop environments, but need common security management and policies,” said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
Oltsik continues, “Trend Micro offers these defenses so that enterprises can manage physical assets and virtual assets in a way that will cut costs, improve operations, continue to block the most current threats, and really deliver the user experience and the security. It is what enterprises want.”
- What’s next for VDI Security?
A pioneer in virtualization security, Trend Micro will be leveraging its accumulated expertise in VDI and virtualization security to create stronger, more immediate data protection product lines for enterprises. The company is working towards creating security solutions that minimize IT resource utilization, but maximize ROI in VDI deployments through flexible and adaptable virtualization solutions that protect virtual desktops.
Recognizing that enterprises require effective security solutions that seamlessly span physical, virtual and private/public cloud environments while simplifying operational and management complexities, Trend Micro will continue to work closely with virtualization platform vendors to offer new protection mechanisms.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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