Catbird announced that V-Security 2.0 is now McAfee Compatible and is interoperable with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software. The joint solution provides integrated security for both physical and virtual environments. The integration of V-Security with McAfee ePO ought to enable McAfee customers to gain comprehensive virtual network visibility into the ePO database as they add virtualized platforms into their physical data center.
“Catbird and McAfee together can address the entire range of virtualization security and compliance. No one else in the security industry can provide similar coverage,” said Edmundo Costa, Catbird COO. “As charter members of VMware’s VMsafe initiative, both companies are amongst a select group of industry visionaries in security and compliance for virtual infrastructure.”
Catbird’s V-Security solution complements the ePO software. This integration unites Catbird’s industry-leading virtual network security with McAfee’s virtual and physical end-point security, delivering physical and virtual end-to-end protection for the entire data center. McAfee customers adding virtualization solutions to their infrastructure can extend the ePO database to get a holistic view of security of the entire environment, improving ROI by reducing training and management costs. Together, Catbird V-Security and McAfee ePO software deliver hypervisor and virtual machine asset data protection to assure policy compliance and enforcement, network segmentation, server sprawl management, vulnerability monitoring, intrusion detection and prevention, and end-point protection such as anti-virus, anti-spam and encryption.
McAfee customers can consolidate these capabilities with the ePO software’s architecture for cross-product integration, risk management, provisioning control, reporting, auditing and compliance to take advantage of a full-spectrum solution for both physical and virtual network and systems security.
“Through the integration of McAfee’s physical and virtual machine security with Catbird’s virtual network security in a single management console, we have a powerful solution in the rapidly growing area of data center virtualization,” said Ed Barry, Senior Director, McAfee Security Innovation Alliance. “The enhanced security, ease of use and automation of this integrated solution will allow our customers to fully leverage the efficiency and cost savings that virtualization provides with even greater confidence that their assets are well protected.”
Catbird’s V-Security 2.0 delivers a broad spectrum of security and compliance assurance to enterprise customers deploying virtualization solutions. V-Security employs Catbird’s encyclopedic Virtual Infrastructure Security Engine (VISE) to correlate hundreds of machine attributes with access control, network segmentation, vulnerability and IDP security events, across multiple clusters and data centers, to deliver broad asset awareness and defense-in-depth. The flagship solution features VMShield 2.0 with TrustZones and V-Tracker, the latest innovation in Catbird’s line of cross-platform, non-invasive, stateless Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) security solutions for virtual networks. (Source: Catbird/GST)