The vast majority of cyber attacks that affect physical machines can also attack virtual machines. Moreover, the risks within virtual environments can be even higher. Although virtualization can improve IT agility and efficiency, it also adds extra layers of technology. Maintaining visibility of each layer of technology—and how they interact—can be difficult. Many virtual environments naturally contain a greater number of ‘attack surfaces’—and that gives cyber criminals more opportunities to attack the business. Virtual machines need security designed for virtual machines. Most businesses have found that, as virtualization spreads to more areas of their IT estate, their overall virtual environment becomes much more complex. Today, a typical enterprise’s virtual environment will include a wide range of different technologies—with many running under different hypervisors. Again, all of this diverse infrastructure needs to be protected against data breach and cyber attacks—but standard security technologies are not Kaspersky Lab™ suited to virtual environments. Kaspersky Lab™ gives you a choice of virtualization security technologies.

Kaspersky Lab™ Security for Virtualization provides a single solution to secure both virtual servers and VDI. Because it supports all the most commonly used platforms—including VMware vSphere™, Citrix XenServer™, Microsoft Hyper—V™ and KVM™—Kaspersky Lab™ security for virtualization is ideal for heterogeneous environments. The solution offers two different approaches to specialized virtualization security—both of which can be run simultaneously on different parts of your infrastructure. Agent less—one security virtual appliance per host performs malware scanning of all VMs. Light agent—a light Kaspersky Lab™ security agent on each VM significantly boosts protection. Single console—a single console means that physical and virtual machines, and mobile devices, can all be managed together. Professional help is available whenever you need it. Operating in more than 200 countries, from 34 offices worldwide, Kaspersky Lab™ has you covered 24/7. Take advantage a Kaspersky Lab™ Maintenance Service Agreement (MSA) support package, or call on your Account Manager to ensure that you derive maximum benefit from your Kaspersky Lab™ security installation.

What It Gives To Your Business

With Kaspersky Lab Security for Virtualization Agent less™ protecting your VMware™ environment, you need only install one instance of the security software on the virtual host to secure every VM running on that host. For KVM™, Microsoft Hyper—V™ and Citrix XenServer™, Kaspersky Lab Security for Virtualization Light Agent™ delivers protection using just one virtual appliance on each virtual host and a very small agent on each virtual machine. Because the Kaspersky Lab Security for Virtualization Light Agent™ solution also runs on VMware™, you can choose which solution is best for different areas of your VMware™ environment such as Agent less for non critical virtual servers. Light Agent for robust protection of virtual desktop infrastructure & business critical servers. The vast majority of cyber-attacks that affect physical machines can also attack virtual machines (VMs). In fact, virtualization can actually increase your levels of security risk. While virtualization can improve IT agility and efficiency, it also adds more layers of technology. Maintaining full visibility for each layer—and how they interact—can be difficult. And more layers generally means more ‘attack surfaces’, increasing the ways in which cybercriminals can attack your business.

Centralized Management Saves You Time

Kaspersky Lab Security for Virtualization™ includes Kaspersky Lab Security Center™—an application that’s designed to save you time on security administration. Kaspersky Lab Security Center™ includes a unified management console that gives you centralized control over security on all your virtual machines. If you’re also running other Kaspersky Lab™ security technologies, the console provides centralized management of security across all your protected endpoints and servers—desktops, laptops, mobiles and virtual machines. Native integration of our agentless solution with the VMware NSX platform means your virtual infrastructure has just became even more efficient and profitable. From now on, your VMware vSphere with NSX infrastructure and its security layers work in harness, bringing new levels of automation and policy driven security. With Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Agentless™, protection of every single VM happens instantly and automatically, with no impact on systems productivity. If you virtualized data center is fast—growing and heterogeneous, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent is right for you.

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