Virtualization

Trend Micro Secures Virtual Environments

Virtualization, a method that lets organizations consolidate multiple applications each running a different operating system onto a single server, is used in enterprises and medium businesses to save costs and improve operations. Each application runs as a “virtual machine” (VM). While virtualization offers many benefits, it also poses security challenges that are typical of any computing environment along with some challenges that are unique to VM environments. Trend Micro is working with virtualization innovators like VMware to protect virtual machine environments so that customers can securely take advantage of virtual computing. Today, Trend Micro offers customers support for many of our leading security solutions running in VMware.

Software Virtual Appliances at the Gateway

Virtualization is the key to reducing costs, increasing IT flexibility and improving business continuity. A software virtual appliance delivers an integrated, hardened OS and security application optimized for performance and continuous protection. The solution can be deployed on industry-standard “bare-metal” hardware or within a virtual environment such as VMware, each with its own merits to address specific requirements.

The following Trend Micro products are supported in VMware environments when minimum system requirements are fulfilled and VMware supports the operating system required for the Trend Micro product.
Product Form Factor Protection point OS supported Virtualization platforms supported
InterScan™ Web Security Virtual Appliance 3.1 Virtual Appliance Gateway N/A
 VMware ESX 3.x
InterScan™ Web Security Suite 3.1 Software Gateway RHEL 4.x, 5.x SuSE 10.x
 VMware ESX 3.x
IM Security for Microsoft™ LCS 1.0
 Software Server LCS 2005 Standard or Enterprise Edition (Front-end) or LCS 2005 with Service Pack (SP1) Standard or Enterprise Edition,
Microsoft™ Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise Edition and Live Communications Server 2003 Home Server,
Microsoft™ Office Communicator 2005		 VMware workstation 5.x, 6.x, VMware Server 1.x, VMware ESX 3.x
InterScan™ Messaging Security Virtual Appliance 7.0 Virtual Appliance Gateway N/A
 VMware ESX 3.x
InterScan™ Messaging Security Suite 7.0 Software Gateway Windows server 2000, 2003, RHEL 3 or 4,
SuSE Linux Enter server 8.0/9.0
 VMware ESX 3.x
InterScan™ WebProtect™ for ISA 5.01 Software Gateway Microsoft ISA 2004 and 2006 running on Windows server 2000, 2003 R2/SP2 VMware Workstation 5.x, 6.x, VMware Server 1.x, VMware ESX 3.x  
LeakProof™ 3.0 Software End Point Microsoft Vista, Windows XP sp2, Windows 2000 professional sp4, Windows 2003 server, spl sp2 VMware Workstation 5.x, 6.x
OfficeScan™ Client/Server Edition 8.0 with Patch 2 Software End point Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server VMware ESX 3.x
PortalProtect™ for Microsoft™ SharePoint™
1.7		 Software Server MSFT Windows 2003 server,
Microsoft SharePoint portal server 2003/2007,
Microsoft SharePoint service 2.0/3.0		 VMware ESX 3.x
ScanMail™ Suite for Lotus Domino 3.0 Software Server Windows server 2000, 2003, RHEL 3 or 4,
SuSE Linux Enter server 8.0/9.0		 VMware workstation 5.x, 6.x, VMware Server 1.x,
VMware ESX 3.x
ScanMail™ Suite for Microsoft Exchange 7.0/8.0 Software Server Microsoft™ Windows™ 2003 Server with SP1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with SP 4 or above 		VMware workstation 5.x, 6.x, VMware Server 1.x, VMware ESX 3.x
Spam Prevention Solution 7.0 Software Gateway Windows server 2000, 2003, RHEL 3 or 4,
SuSE Linux Enter server 8.0/9.0		 VMware ESX 3.x      
ServerProtect for Linux 3.0 Software End point RHEL 4.x, 5.x SLES 10.x VMware ESX 3.x
ServerProtect for Windows 5.7 Software End point Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server VMware ESX 3.X
Trend Micro Control Manager™ 5.0 Software Central Management Microsoft Windows Server/Advanced Server 2000, 2003 Standard and Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Internet Information Sever 5.0 or higher
Microsoft Data Engine 2000 SP3/SP4, SQL 2005 Express, SQL Server 2000, SQL 2005		 VMware ESX 3.x
 

Contact us

If you are interested in discussing deployment of Trend Micro solutions on VMware, please contact Trend Micro sales.

"Working with our recently announced VMsafe(tm) technology, Trend Micro can build advanced security features into future products aimed at helping our joint customers make virtual infrastructure more secure than a physical environment. For example, the offline scanning and remediation functionality being demonstrated by Trend Micro today would protect virtual machines against malware while they are dormant before customers bring them back online." - Brian Byun
Vice President of Global Partners and Solutions at VMware

"While organizations frequently use virtualization to help save energy costs and lower administrative IT expenses, they also have an opportunity to leverage this technology for improved security. Most security solutions in the market underperform in virtual environments so, together with VMware, we want to help our customers to both take advantage of the cost benefits of virtualization and improve their organization security profile at the same time." - Punit Minocha
Vice President of Business Development for Trend Micro

Customer Benefits of Trend Micro Software Running in VMware

Today, Trend Micro security solutions support VMware environments to defend organizations against Internet content security threats including spam, spyware, phishing, viruses, Trojans, and other malware.
Some of the customer benefits are listed below:
  • Reduced operational costs to organizations through centralized management and automatic security updates. Deploying these solutions in VMware may further reduce costs and simplify operations.
  • Customers have a choice to deploy Trend Micro security software on a dedicated hardware platform or in a VMware virtual machine environment – whichever is the best fit for their IT needs.

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