Symantec Furthers Virtualisation Strategy

Symantec Corp has announced its security solutions have been optimised to drive increased density and performance in virtual environments. Symantec’s security solutions are designed to be applicable for environments running any of the common hypervisors available today.

Symantec’s virtualisation security strategy involves delivering customers Single Instance Security centered around complete protection, covering attack vectors that traditional antivirus protection cannot defend against. Single Instance Security represents Symantec’s shift from in-guest, multi-instance protection, where each guest has its own instance of malware definitions and scanning engines, to out-of-guest protection where guests share a single instance of relevant protection technologies. The result will be better protection of data and reduced operational and performance challenges associated with securing online and offline virtual environments.

“By innovating aggressively across our product lines, Symantec is focused on providing customers with the tools they need to confidently move forward with virtualisation security projects,” said Francis deSouza, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec. “Our defense-in-depth approach to securing virtual and physical environments allows us to deliver network-, file- and behavior-based protection technologies from the industry leader in security.”