Solutions

Data Center Security

Today, most enterprises are in the midst of a major shift as the boundaries between physical, virtual, and public and private clouds are blurring. As organizations transform and optimize their server infrastructure, they face the reality that next-generation data centers require ever-evolving solutions to keep their systems secure.

Data centers are the nerve center of an organization, which makes their security a top priority for IT directors and CISOs. McAfee helps IT leaders as they are faced with managing complex security for their next-generation data center by delivering comprehensive server security solutions that discover workloads, protect servers, and expand into the cloud.

When customers engage with McAfee, we do more than provide our security expertise, end-to-end products, and open management platform. We also provide a seamlessly integrated approach to building deep security and efficient compliance practices around business-critical servers, whether they exist in physical or virtual environments, on-premises or in the cloud — without hampering performance. McAfee has developed a collection of data center security solutions managed centrally from McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) to provide a holistic, yet modular security infrastructure for today’s complex data centers.

• Server Security Suite Essentials

  McAfee Server Security Suite Essentials delivers foundational server security protection and management for physical, virtual, and cloud deployments, enabling you to discover workloads for complete security visibility, protect workloads with desired security policies, and expand workloads into the cloud with automatic provisioning of security policies.

  
  Feature & Benefits:
  

  Core antivirus for physical servers
  Deploy a highly effective set of core capabilities designed to block threats at the traditional endpoint. McAfee has earned a #1 ranking by NSS Labs against zero-day exploits and evasion attacks.

  Optimized virtualization security
  Get security optimized for virtualized environments, including your virtual machines in the cloud. McAfee Server Security Suite Essentials provides virus protection for virtual servers without compromising performance or security, helping you to realize operational returns and more effective security management.

  Full visibility of virtual machines
  Discover not just physical servers but also hypervisors and virtual machines in both VMware vSphere and Amazon Web Services environments. Automatically discover when virtual machines are provisioned and automatically protect them with appropriate security policies.

  Hardware-assisted security
  Protect against the most advanced rootkits targeting physical servers. Our partnership with Intel allows McAfee to deliver hardware-assisted security and provide visibility into stealth malware infections — malware that is quietly spreading and evading current OS-based security solutions.

  Host intrusion prevention
  Safeguard against complex security threats that may otherwise be unintentionally introduced. Prevent intrusions, protect assets, and defend your company against known and emerging exploits, including zero-day attacks. With this stronger protection against exploits that target new vulnerabilities, your IT staff has more time for planning, testing, and deploying patches.

  Centralized management
  Obtain single-pane manageability for physical and virtual servers, including those in the private and public cloud. The single-console environment provides comprehensive management for all McAfee server capabilities and lowers the total cost of ownership. All components of McAfee Server Security Suite Essentials are tightly integrated with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) security management platform for efficiently centralized risk assessment, security management, and incident resolution.

• Server Security Suite Advanced

  McAfee Server Security Suite Advanced delivers the most comprehensive server protection and management for physical, virtual, and cloud deployments, enabling you to discover workloads for complete security visibility, protect workloads with desired security policies, expand workloads into the cloud with automatic provisioning of security policies, and ensure regulatory compliance. It includes all features of McAfee Server Security Suite Essentials along with additional advanced server security, including white listing to protect from zero-day threats and change control to meet regulatory requirements.

  
  Feature & Benefits:
  

  Core antivirus for physical servers
  Deploy a highly effective set of core capabilities designed to block threats at the traditional endpoint. McAfee has earned a #1 ranking by NSS Labs against zero-day exploits and evasion attacks.

  Optimized virtualization security
  Get security optimized for virtualized environments, including your virtual machines in the cloud. McAfee Server Security Suite Advanced provides virus protection for virtual servers without compromising performance or security, helping you realize operational returns and more effective security management.

  Full visibility of virtual machines
  Discover not just physical servers but also hypervisors and virtual machines in both VMware vSphere and Amazon Web Services environments. Automatically discover when virtual machines are provisioned and automatically protect them with appropriate security policies.

  Hardware-assisted security
  Protect against the most advanced rootkits targeting physical servers. Our partnership with Intel allows McAfee to deliver hardware-assisted security and provide visibility into stealth malware infections — malware that is quietly spreading and evading current OS-based security solutions.

  Host intrusion prevention
  Safeguard against complex security threats that may otherwise be unintentionally introduced. Prevent intrusions, protect assets, and defend your company against known and emerging exploits, including zero-day attacks. With this stronger protection against exploits that target new vulnerabilities, your IT staff has more time for planning, testing, and deploying patches.

  Block unauthorized applications
  Allow only authorized software to run on devices and protect against zero-day exploits and advanced persistent threats (APTs) — without signature updates. McAfee Server Security Suite Advanced includes the industry’s strongest malware protection and significantly lowers host performance impact over traditional endpoint security controls.

  Prevent unauthorized system changes
  Provide continuous detection of system-level changes across distributed and remote locations, and prevent tampering by blocking unauthorized changes to critical system files, directories, and configurations. Track and validate every attempted change in real time on the server, enforcing change policy by a time window, source, or approved work ticket. This continuous control minimizes the impact from ad hoc or unauthorized changes.

  Centralized management
  Obtain single-pane manageability for physical and virtual servers, including those in the private and public cloud. The single-console environment provides comprehensive management for all McAfee server capabilities and lowers the total cost of ownership. All components of McAfee Server Security Suite Advanced are tightly integrated with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) security management platform for efficiently, centralized risk assessment, security management, and incident resolution.

• Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

  McAfee virtualization solutions are designed to make virtual desktop security simpler and more scalable for large enterprise deployments. The McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) platform provides security management tailored specifically to virtualized environments. Rather than running an endpoint security agent in each virtual machine (VM), MOVE AntiVirus delivers a virtual appliance to consolidate scanning processes and signature updates outside of the VMs, efficiently protecting all virtualized desktops.
  McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a bundle that includes McAfee MOVE AV along with McAfee Application Control, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux.

  
  Feature & Benefits:
  

  Unified security and compliance management platform for virtualized endpoint
  The consolidated platform allows organizations to get the most out of their virtualized desktops by optimizing the protection to ensure maximum performance.

  Solution scalability
  In tests, a virtualized protection allows servers to run up to three times the number of virtual machines, compared to traditional endpoint security protections.

  Hypervisor-native detection
  A hypervisor-native detection can identify any compromised virtual machine and isolate the vulnerability before it compromises other systems.