With Shavlik’s solutions, you will BE READY to secure your virtual environment.
Virtual machines have recently become a reality at most organizations. The savings in rack space, hardware costs, power consumption, and many other factors are driving this steadily increasing trend. However, this boom in logical servers has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of devices connected to the network, and each needs to be individually configured, patched, and secured. Fortunately, solutions from Shavlik Technologies can provide the same secure operating base and patch management for virtual machines as they can for their physical counterparts.
MYTH: A well-protected host insulates the virtual systems running behind it.
REALITY: A UNIX based host, or any host for that matter, that is up to date with all security patches, perfectly configured and hardened will not protect a virtual Microsoft IIS server running underneath. Likewise, virtual machines and appliances potentially carry embedded vulnerabilities and require special consideration for patching and updates. To establish an effective security baseline, each and every virtual machine needs individual attention and management.
MYTH: The low-level infrastructure and interfaces that connect virtual machines to the network and management systems are subtly different, and prevent many systems and applications from working effectively in a virtual environment.
REALITY: Virtual machine proxies are very capable of handling low level system oriented tasks such as system shut-downs, re-starts, reconfigures, and system updates. Patch management, as implemented by Shavlik Technologies, works equally well with virtual machines and their physical counterparts.
MYTH: Offline Virtual Machines are not a security concern.
REALITY: True — until they’re brought back online. And once brought back online, the “surprises” happen FAST. Offline virtual machines need to patched and configured to policy BEFORE they touch the network.
Shavlik Technologies Secures Your Virtual World
- Virtual machines have the same visibility to Shavlik’s patch and vulnerability management products as do dedicated machines. Existing and new virtual devices are discovered in the same way as dedicated devices.
- Virtual machines require the same patches as dedicated devices, and the patches are tested, received, applied, rolled back if necessary, and managed in the same way.
Agentless Approach – Easiest Way to Patch Virtual Machines
- Shavlik patch management does not require agents, so patch and vulnerability management can be done easily, from a single console, in a matter of minutes.
- Deploying and maintaining hundreds or thousands of agents on virtual machines within large organizations is a time consuming, tedious, and expensive effort.
- Organizations rapidly accelerate their level of security because they can begin assessment, remediation and generating useful reports within minutes of a new virtual machine going active.
Shavlik – Only Vendor Patching Offline Virtual Machines
- Shavlik Technologies has developed a way to patch all virtual machines, even those that are offline. This ensures that offline virtual images can be in a constant state of readiness to be deployed.
- IT staff can quickly verify and report that 100% of the organization’s vulnerable machines – physical, virtual, and offline -- have received a specific critical patch and are protected.
