McAfee Launches New Platform, MOVE

McAfee, Inc. has announced its strategy to advance the security options for virtualised environments that will provide stronger and optimised security controls helping customer’s maximise their current and future investments in virtualisation.McAfee is currently developing a platform and application programming interface to provide a framework that will accelerate and address the specific needs of security for virtualised environments.

The new platform, McAfee Management for Optimised Virtual Environments (MOVE) platform, is designed to provide a common way to develop across the hypervisor vendors, offload resource intensive actions like security policy checking outside of the individual virtual machines and optimise scheduling of these actions based on the overall state of the hypervisor. McAfee plans to provide open source to its partners for security innovation, accelerating future virtual-adaptive offerings for the enterprise market. Utilising the MOVE platform, McAfee intends to release A/V Offloading as its first product for customers.

“McAfee MOVE will provide the platform for leveraging new and existing virtualized architectures to significantly reduce the overhead of protecting individual machines,” said George Kurtz, Chief Technology Officer, McAfee. “Security within virtualised environments is one of our customers’ main concerns. We believe that enhancing the overall protection of these environments will lead to increased adoption of virtual machines with significant costs savings.”

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