Trend Micro has unveiled a new version of Deep Security software, designed to help organisations protect entire server, including the operating system, network and applications layers for security, regardless of computing environment, virtualisation platform or storage location.
Trend Micro Deep Security provides protection for servers from the operating system to resident applications with a modular architecture that includes, a deep packet inspection engine with intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), web application protection and network-level application control, firewall, integrity monitoring and log inspection modules.
The company said that the new Deep Security 7.0 protects both physical and virtual systems using virtual security appliances designed for VMware V13 and vSphere 4 environments. It coordinates VMsafe API-based security applied at the hypervisor with additional protection on virtual machines to protect VMware environments.
According to Trend Mico, the new version enables event tagging for better workflow of security incident handling, and provides the ability to create a reference system to reduce false positive alerts resulting from normal system updates such as patching. Other enhancements include integrity monitoring, log inspection, and SIEM integration capabilities.
Trend Micro Deep Security combines with its ServerProtect and Core Protection for virtual machines, the company’s anti-malware products designed for physical servers and VMware virtual servers, respectively.
Thomas Miller, executive general manager of the enterprise business unit at Trend Micro, said: With cloud computing, servers, like laptops before them, are moving outside the security perimeter and can be co-located with unknown and potentially malicious servers. Trend Micro server security solutions enable protection for virtual and cloud-based servers that are susceptible to these unique risks and challenges currently not addressed by existing security solutions.
Trend Micro Deep Security 7 is expected to be available in November 2009 with two pricing models. Deep Security for traditional physical servers on a per server basis starts at $885 per server and a virtual server license is available for VMware environments with unlimited agents per host machine starting at $2100 per socket.
