McAfee intros MOVE

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announced its strategy to
advance the security options for virtualized environments that will
provide stronger and optimized security controls helping customer's
maximize their current and future investments in virtualization.
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 virtualized environments.

Traditionally, security within the
virtual machine or guest has proven to be inefficient and resource
intensive, limiting the total number of virtual machines that can be
deployed on a singular host. These challenges have jeopardized the
long term operational expected savings that organizations have hoped
to achieve with virtualization. Companies are deploying
virtualization within their environments based on best fit and ease
of management. There are limited choices for security, deploy
traditional endpoint security within the virtual machine or utilize a
hypervisor vendor's proprietary API. Giving customers a way to
unify security management across physical and virtual infrastructures
has been a major driver in McAfee's strategy.

The new platform, McAfee Management for
Optimized 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 optimize 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. Utilizing 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, CTO, McAfee. “Security within virtualized
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,” he added.

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