HP Strengthens Security Across Physical, Virtual Environments

HP has announced new high-performance security solutions designed to prevent network breaches in a Converged Infrastructure by delivering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments. The new offerings bring enhanced security to HP FlexFabric, the flexible and secure data centre networking fabric for a Converged Infrastructure.

The HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualisation Framework (SVF) as a suite of products is designed to help prevent network threats from impacting virtualised environments. The TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController), the first product introduced under the SVF, extends TippingPoint security protection from physical to virtual networks, by routing it through an HP TippingPoint N-Platform Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliance. The vController prevents security attacks by inspecting all VM traffic as it moves through the network either between VMs or from VMs to traditional servers.

Additional vController benefits include:

• Increased network security by extending HP’s automated threat-prevention capabilities to virtual environments.
• Reduced deployment complexity by enabling customers to extend the same processes, tools and expertise used in securing their physical environments to their virtual infrastructures.
• Simplified management of network security by providing single-pane-of-glass management, visibility and control across both physical and virtual networks.

HP also has expanded its security product line with the introduction of the new HP TippingPoint Reputation Digital Vaccine service (Rep DV). Rep DV ensures that customer-deployed IPS solutions have the most current and accurate list of malicious or suspicious websites and blocks traffic to or from these sites automatically. The list of sites is updated every two hours and powered by HP’s DVLabs, the industry-leading security research and development organisation that, through its community of researchers, partners and customers, has been credited with discovering more security vulnerabilities than any other lab in the industry.

HP also is introducing two new HP TippingPoint S-series solutions that further extend network security from local area networks to the core of the data centre for both physical and virtual domains.

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HP has also announced solutions that complement HP’s new server-edge connectivity offerings, the offerings include the new HP Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module for the HP A5820 data centre switch, which converges storage and network top-of-rack switches as well as dedicated server and storage network adapters to dramatically reduce connectivity complexity at the server edge.