Alphawest offers a Virtualisation Security Solution that enables better protection of virtual environments from security risks, which standard network security technologies cannot combat.  The solution offers comprehensive intrusion detection, prevention and firewall control together with network discovery for traffic inside virtual networks.  In addition, it enables protection of virtual environments from the physical network; as well as protection between virtual sessions.  The solution also includes options for Security Information Management within and outside the virtual environment. 

Benefits:

• Unlike standard security solutions on the market, Alphawest’s Virtualisation Security solution inspects and filters traffic between virtual machines whether they exist on the one server or between physical servers.
• The solution enables organisations to obtain full visibility into the virtual network topology (so that administrators know what is happening within the virtual environment at any given time).
• The SIM component of the solution offers multi-vendor security event management, device, management, identity management, network discovery, event correlation, alerts and reporting.  This enables organisations to maintain control over virtualised environments and assists organisations to demonstrate this for audit purposes. 
• True manageability of the virtual environment allows organizations to reduce total cost of ownership.
• The offering enables organisations to reduce security risks within virtual network communications.
• Solves problems that conventional firewalls and security tools outside the host can’t (for example conventional technologies in the physical environment can’t inspect or control the traffic in the virtual world).
• Part of Alphawest’s Security Risk Management Framework.

Features:

• Protects Virtual Servers and the Virtual LAN.
• Blocks and prevents threats occurring within and outside the virtual environment.
• Network discovery and advanced multi-layered security of the virtual environment.
• Integrates security between the virtual and physical network.
• Includes features to enable auditing and reporting.
• Additional options include Security Information Management (SIM) of virtual and physical environment, which offers:
  • Centralised Log Management: collects, archives and correlates event and system data from a variety of heterogeneous, multi-vendor network devices, servers and applications.
  • Topology-Based Threat Visualisation: provides ability to assess overall security posture of the network.
  • Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting: correlates and monitors security event data to proactively reduce false positives and identify security breaches.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: delivers reports to provide insight into network state.
  • Forensics Analysis: provides the ability to search log data to isolate events toward ensuring regulatory compliance.