Virtualized Environment Security
Enterprise and hosted data centers have traditionally required large squadrons of physical computer servers.  Over time, this “server farm” sprawl can incur large operational, logistical and total cost of ownership (TCO) burdens. Increasingly, virtualized server technologies are being used to consolidate physical servers and provide data centers with substantial cost, efficiency and service benefits.

The Rules of the Game Have Changed
Virtualization provides significant operational benefits but it changes the rules of the game for network security professionals.

Virtualization creates an invisible network infrastructure that conventional security products can neither see nor protect.  This exposes data centers and sensitive information to viruses, data theft, tampering, rogue devices, denial of service attacks and more.  It can also cause regulatory compliance violations, service disruptions or legal issues.

Reflex VSA Secures Virtualized Environments
Reflex Security’s patent-pending Reflex VSA™ creates a virtualized security appliance and virtual security infrastructure inside a physical host machine.  The Reflex solution applies multiple network security and policy enforcement controls to protect virtual machines, virtualized networks and the underlying host and virtualization platform.  This allows organizations to provide appropriate security to virtual machines that would otherwise be exposed to risk. 

Reflex VSA can also safeguard communications between virtual components and resources outside the host machine.  This provides a complete security perimeter around and between virtual machines and reduces the risk of virtual machine intrusion, infection, compliance violations or other consequences.  

• Complete Virtual Environment Awareness: Dynamically profiles virtualized network state, assets, services and communication flows and provides essential context for security threats and attacks.

• Complete Virtual Environment Protection:  Delivers Tolly-Certified Reflex ThreatIQ™  protection, including intrusion prevention, anti-virus, anti-spyware, network discovery, network policy enforcement and more.

• Virtual Environment Partitioning:  Integrated Reflex Network Defender™ policy enforcement module quarantines infected, disruptive or rogue virtual devices that could jeopardize security or compliance standards.

• Granular Security Control:  Unique deployment points in front of and between virtual servers allow VSA to provide superior security and more granular control as compared to conventional network or host-based IPS.

• Wire Speed Performance and High-Availability:  Efficient processing and in-band, out-of-band and load-balanced configurations provide wire-speed performance with multiple fail-open and fail-closed options. 

• Easy Deployment:  Pre-configured, software-based security appliance allows on-the-fly deployment in any platform that supports a virtual Linux machine.

• Advanced Reporting and Administrative Capabilities:  Reflex Command Center provides intuitive information and easy control. 

• Economical; Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO):   The economical and efficient Reflex VSA solution minimizes incremental hardware, administrative and operational costs associated with physical data center security products.

Technical Highlights
Reflex VSA supports:
- VMware ESX Server
- XenSource
- Virtual Iron