McAfee Launches MOVE To Secure Virtualised Environments

McAfee has announced the McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) AV solution which provides comprehensive defences against all types of physical and virtual attacks through a single console. In addition, McAfee MOVE AV is designed to integrate with VMware vShield Endpoint and offers businesses standardised security across all major hyper visors enabling complete security management and delivery for virtualised environments.

The McAfee MOVE AV agentless deployment option addresses the challenges of protecting the virtual environment and keeping it free of malware without the bulk of an agent, resulting in easy deployment and set-up. Both deployment options (multi-platform and agentless) provide powerful, comprehensive, and consistent protection, and are managed and reported by the McAfeeePolicy Orchestrator platform.

The integration with VMware vShield Endpoint enables users to optimise performance in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and virtual server environments based on VMware technology, while knowing that they are completely secure. Virtualisation is all about flexibility, efficiency and scalability. McAfee provides adaptive, agentless security protection for the virtual environment without jeopardising performance allowing users to utilise the full benefits and power of virtualisation.

“The combination of McAfee MOVE AV with VMware vShield Endpoint offers customers protection with top-rated security and high performance in their virtual desktop and server environments,” said Parag Patel, Vice President,Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “This enables users to further embrace virtualisation and benefit from the cost savings it provides.”

As a part of the McAfee security connected framework, McAfee MOVEAV delivers real-time visibility and predictive capability that is enabled by McAfee Global Threat Intelligence, allowing customers to balance the business need to embrace all forms of virtualisation while protecting their critical assets and sensitive data, all seamlessly integrated into one console.

“Business is a virtual entity - the IT landscape CIOs work in is rapidly changing,” said Candace Worley, senior vice president and general manager of endpoint security at McAfee. “Virtualisation is providing the foundation for this agility. With our latest release of McAfee MOVE AV designed to integrate with VMware vShield Endpoint, security can be enabled without an agent making it easier to deploy and manage. Together, McAfee and VMware equip customers with the security and manageability they need.”