Virtualization

Industry experts agree: the use of virtualized systems offer many operational benefits and cost savings, but these benefits quickly erode if virtual machines are not properly secured.

One major threat to the network, often ignored by or simply not on the radar of many IT organizations: offline virtual systems.

Shavlik Netchk Protect is the industry’s first and only solution to integrate security for both online and offline virtual machines.

See what top analysts from Gartner and Forrester are saying about the importance of securing offline virtual systems:

Gartner Report: Security Considerations and Best Practices for Securing Virtual Machines, by Neil MacDonald
“Patch offline images - Don’t overlook the patching of VMs and VM appliances stored offline. In most cases today, these must be brought online on a live machine to be patched before being written off to storage again. Standardized virtual hard drive formats have made offline patching possible; wherever possible, require vendors to support offline patching or provide a specific road map when such a capability will be provided.”

Forrester Report: Server Virtualization Security: 90% Process,10% Technology, by Galen Schreck
“Patching of offline systems and preflight checks for production VMs - Most patching, antivirus, and vulnerability management tools are agent-based and require the target machine to be up and running to be properly maintained. As a result, offline virtual machines may lag behind on security updates unless you’ve deployed updated tools that specifically address offline VMs. If you’re not updating offline machines, you should deploy tools to scan VMs when they boot to prevent old vulnerabilities from getting resurrected in your production environment.”

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.