Virtualization Your Virtual Network is a Target for Hackers, Viruses, and Malicious Attacks We erroneously believe that our virtual networks are insulated from attack because they aren't a part of the 'physical' network. But that simply is not true. While server virtualization brings the promise of consolidation, lower costs, greener data centers, and easier management, virtualization security introduces an entirely new level of threats, complexity, management and expense. Overlooking this aspect of virtualization is costly, reckless, and in some cases a violation of compliance.

Securing Virtual Networks Shouldn't Be Complex

Just like their physical counterparts, virtual servers and applications support the business by processing tasks, storing information, delivering data, and supporting sales and field personnel. Unfortunately, they are fast becoming a target for hackers, viruses, and malicious attacks. Virtualized network traffic must be treated as any other traffic and rigorously scrutinized using the same tools that are employed throughout the rest of the network. Virtualization security must be part of the overall network security model, it simply can't be ignored. You have invested substantial time, money, and training for solutions that monitor the security and performance of your physical network. What are you doing for your virtual network?

• Do you know what is going on in your virtual network?
• Are your security tools monitoring your virtual servers?
• Are you planning on purchasing "virtualized" versions of your existing security tools and are you ready for the additional expense?
• Do you have the resources to manage yet another deployment of the exact security tool you already have?
• Are you accounting for the performance hit when adding multiple virtual security tools to your virtual environments?
• Why pay for and manage additional tools?

Better Virtual Network Security

Solera Networks offers an alternative to purchasing costly virtualized versions of security tools - like firewalls, IDS, anti-virus and many others. The Solera Virtual Appliance can be used inside a virtual host to direct traffic from the host to any physical security tool in the network. It captures and replays any traffic between virtual machines that reside on a single host server. To the physical security tool/appliance, replayed traffic looks like any network data feed. The Solera Virtual Appliance also has the ability to capture and store a record of historical network traffic, allowing you to go back in time and interrogate any event that happened in the virtual network.

Problem Solved

The Solera Virtual Appliance is easily deployed within your virtual network or on server hardware of your choice and delivers the same capture, store and replay capabilities found in Solera DS hardware-based appliance. It creates a complete record of all your virtual (or physical) network traffic: giving you the ability to go back in time and replay any network event.

With the Virtual Appliance, virtual network security isn't a separate process, it's an integrated component of the security practices and tools your organization already employs. Protect information assets in virtual environments and prepare for the unknown - virtualized networks are fast becoming the target for viruses, malware and malicious intruders. Actively monitoring virtual traffic means unwanted network behavior doesn't go unnoticed.

Save valuable IT budget

Leverage existing security tools; tools that currently monitor traffic in the physical world can now do the same in virtual environments.

Deploy virtual networks with confidence

Capture, record, replay, and analyze any traffic from the virtual network. Gain complete visibility into intra-VM traffic to eliminate the blind spots and realize the full benefits of virtualization.

Simplify security management

Eliminate the need to manage, move, update, or patch security tools that are deployed on multiple virtual machines. Simply update the physical tools and direct your virtual traffic to them using the tap capabilities of the Virtual Appliance.