 "McAfee Launches New DC Security Suites")
McAfee has announced four new Data Center Security Suites to help secure servers and databases in the datacentre. The suites offer a unique combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualisation technologies for protecting servers and virtual desktops. These solutions provide optimal security for servers and databases in physical, virtualised and cloud based datacentres, with minimal impact on server resources which is a key demand for datacentres.
“Performance and security are key concerns for servers in the physical, virtualised or cloud based datacentres,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Information Security and Networking at Enterprise Security Group. “The new server security suites from McAfee, based on its application whitelisting, virtualisation and blacklisting and AV technologies, provide an enhanced security posture while maintaining the high server performance needs of the datacentre.”
The suites offer customers the ability to protect their physical and virtual servers and virtual desktops with a unique combination of technologies in a single solution. McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimised virtualisation support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types. McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides comprehensive security for virtual desktop deployments that won’t compromise performance or the user experience.
McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server–Hypervisor Edition provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimised virtualisation support capabilities for basic security on servers of all types and is licensed per Hypervisor and McAfee Database Server Protection offers data base activity monitoring and vulnerability assessment in a single suite, for all major database servers in the datacentre
“McAfee is leading the industry with these new solutions for protecting servers in the data center,” said Candace Worley, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Endpoint Security at McAfee. “The combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualisation in a single solution, offers an optimal security posture for protecting servers in the data centers. These solutions address the need in the industry to offer solutions that provide the highest level of protection with minimal impact on the resources they are deployed on and in a wide range of customised licensing options.”