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Intel Security and VMware Announce Integrated Solution for Automating and Accelerating Advanced Security Services Deployment
June 2015 by Marc Jacob
Intel Security and VMware, Inc. announced an integrated solution that leverages a Software-Defined Data Center approach and the VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform to automate the distribution and enforcement of Intel® Security’s McAfee® Network Security Platform (NSP), providing Intelligent Intrusion Prevention services (IPS) for the protection of east-west traffic within the data center. Enterprise and Service Provider customers will benefit from simplified orchestration, chaining and delivery of the same advanced services inside the data center that Intel Security provides for north-south traffic at the perimeter of the data center.
Customers immediately benefiting from this solution include healthcare cloud provider ClearDATA, whose customers require HIPAA compliant cloud hosting, backup, disaster recovery and information security services. Meeting these rigorous demands requires ClearDATA to provide advanced threat protection uniformly for all data center traffic coming into the data center as well as within the data center without increased complexity. The integrated solution allows ClearDATA to automate the provisioning and delivery of IPS services for protecting traffic inside the Data Center and scaling these services dynamically in response to customer demand.
The new integrated solution includes the McAfee NSP IPS-VM100-VSS (a new IPS-VM Series model designed for interoperability with VMware NSX), McAfee Network Security Manager, Intel Security Controller and VMware NSX network virtualization platform.
The Intel Security Controller transparently runs as a broker between the VMware NSX infrastructure and the Intel Security’s McAfee NSP. Working in conjunction with the VMware NSX Manager™, it enables network IPS protection to be dynamically and automatically provisioned to help protect intra-VM traffic based on the defined policies and requirements allowing administrators to experience a “plug-in” like environment that enables support for micro-segmentation, security profiles, workflows, policies, and groups.
