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iSimile
is pleased to announce that its partner Apani, the preeminent
provider of cross-platform server isolation solutions
for large enterprises, today announced that EpiForce
VM is now shipping. EpiForce VM is the industry’s
first software-based solution that secures corporate
networks, containing both physical and virtual servers,
from a single platform. EpiForce VM is part of Apani’s
comprehensive security software product family and leverages
the latest platform of the company’s flagship product
EpiForce 2.5.
Apani’s
product family provides enterprises the ability to adopt
a single security solution that will protect the entire
network. From legacy systems to contemporary platforms
and now virtual environments, Apani’s EpiForce
product line is the silver bullet for enterprise IT
departments looking for an alternative to traditional
solutions like firewalls and virtual LANs (VLANs).
Enterprises
are rapidly deploying server virtualisation to realise
benefits associated with increased operational flexibility,
improved utilisation, avoidance of unplanned downtime
and a reduced carbon footprint. The rush to virtualise
has caused many to overlook security best-practices
common in a physical environment. According to Gartner,
through 2009, 60 percent of virtual machines used in
production will be less secure than their physical counterparts.
While
the benefits of server virtualisation are clear, security
challenges force enterprises to make trade-offs between
broad deployment and security that is robust enough
to protect their business. By offering robust virtual
and physical machine security, EpiForce VM enables enterprises
to fully deploy server virtualisation and realise the
benefits it offers.
“Our
customers have large and complex data centers and computing
environments that contain a mix of virtual and physical
servers,” said Scott Ferguson, vice president of
product management at Apani. “They told us that
a silo approach to security does not work and requires
a single solution that is more cost-effective because
it’s a software platform and more secure because
it covers their entire network and not just a subset.”
Apani
EpiForce VM is a unique software-based alternative to
security appliances that operate only in a virtual environment
and to internal network firewalls and VLANs used for
physical segmentation within the corporate network.
The concept behind EpiForce VM is to enable a single
platform that isolates both virtual and physical servers,
endpoints and business-critical data into logical security
zones, regardless of their platform or physical location
on the network. Communications between these zones is
strictly controlled by authentication of all machine-to-machine
traffic and selective encryption based on policy.
“Virtualisation
presents new challanges that span networks, servers,
storage and security,” said Troy Leacock, Business
Development Director at iSimile Limited. “To maximise
the potential benefits of virtualisation, companies
need to visualise and deploy policies for access control
and encryption, whether in the virtual or physical environment,
from a single tool or platform which allows IT teams
from different disciplines to work together more effectively.”
EpiForce
VM uses on-demand policy distribution to offer enterprises
the ability to manage and deploy policy to thousands
of virtual or physical servers and endpoints with no
impact to the network, application or user. EpiForce
VM offers a centralised management console that enables
a consolidated view to manage all EpiForce VM-protected
machines – whether they are virtual or physical,
without regard to their physical location on the network.
Persistent security allows administrators to utilise
VMotion or Virtual Center to migrate EpiForce VM-protected
virtual machines from one physical host to another with
no disruption of security policy, minimising unplanned
downtime and maximising operational flexibility.
EpiForce
VM is based on the EpiForce platform v2.5 and offers
enterprises running VMware ESX Server many unique benefits,
including:
- Protect
virtual machines and physical servers and endpoints
with a single solution
- Manage
all EpiForce VM-protected machines through a single
management console, regardless of platform or physical
location and without the need to reconfigure the network
- Migrate
virtual machines using VMotion or Virtual Center without
compromising security policy
- Protect
virtual machines from vulnerabilities introduced through
VM sprawl
- Cross-platform
support secures complex, heterogeneous environments
Other
EpiForce VM features include:
- Support
for F5 load balancers
- Support
for Microsoft Cluster Services, HP Service Guard and
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- Network
layer transparency offers deployment in days rather
than months
- On-demand
policy distribution deploys policy to tens or hundred
of thousands of machines without impacting network
performance
- Distributed
architecture eliminates bottlenecks and single points
of failure
- Manage
policy from virtual or physical administrator consoles
– or both
- Robust
audit, logging and reporting enable full administrator
visibility
- Role-based
delegation of administrative privileges accommodates
almost any organisational process
The
EpiForce product family is available now and initially
supports VMware ESX Server 3.0 and 3.5. For more information
on EpiForce and EpiForce VM please visit www.isimile.com.
iSimile
designs, implements, and supports a range of performance,
availability and security focused solutions and integrates
best of breed products from Apani Networks, CA, Netcordia,
Lancope, nCircle, netForensics and Niksun, which offer:
- Business
service management
- Application
performance management
- Network
health management
- System
& application management
- Voice
management
- Security
risk management
- Event
consolidation and correlation
- Security
reporting
- Incident
resolution management
- Network
segmentation & device authentication
- Encryption
- IT
security surveillance and packet-level forensics
- Vulnerability
management
- Flow
analysis
- Change
and configuration management
- Compliance
management
More
information about iSimile can be found at www.isimile.com
or by contacting Troy
Leacock
Apani®
is the preeminent provider of cross-platform server
isolation solutions for large enterprises. Apani’s
solution isolates and secures the communication between
servers and endpoints without regard to operating system
or physical location.
Apani
EpiForce®, the company’s flagship product,
is a software-based alternative to using firewalls and
VLANs inside the corporate network. EpiForce enables
two powerful disciplines – logical security zoning
and policy-based encryption of data in motion. EpiForce
is a distributed, centrally-managed solution that is
transparent to users, applications and infrastructure
– making it quicker to deploy and less costly to
manage than hardware-centric solutions. Policy enforced
by EpiForce is persistent, which enables protected resources
to be relocated without compromising security.
Providing
an evolutionary improvement in efficiency, flexibility,
manageability and total cost of ownership, Apani technology
is used by much of the Fortune 500.
Based
in Southern California, Apani was founded in 2003 and
is privately held. More information about the company
may be found at www.apani.com.
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