The Joint Solution Provides Integrated Security for both Physical and Virtual Environments

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Catbird, the pioneering leader in security and compliance solutions for virtual and cloud networks, today announced that V-Security 2.0 is now McAfee Compatible and is interoperable with McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) software. The integration of V-Security with McAfee ePO software enables McAfee customers to gain comprehensive virtual network visibility into the ePO database as they add virtualized platforms into their physical data center.

“Catbird and McAfee together can address the entire range of virtualization security and compliance. No one else in the security industry can provide similar coverage," said Edmundo Costa, Catbird COO. “As charter members of VMware’s VMsafe initiative, both companies are amongst a select group of industry visionaries in security and compliance for virtual infrastructure. We are pleased to partner with McAfee in providing a comprehensive solution for both physical and virtual network security to meet ePolicy Orchestrator software customers’ needs.”

Catbird's V-Security solution complements the ePO software and this integration unites Catbird’s industry-leading virtual network security with McAfee’s virtual and physical end-point security, delivering end-to-end protection for the entire data center, physical and virtual. McAfee customers adding virtualization solutions to their infrastructure can extend the ePO database to get a holistic view of security of the entire environment, improving ROI by reducing training and management costs. Together, Catbird V-Security and McAfee ePO software deliver hypervisor and virtual machine asset data protection to assure policy compliance and enforcement; network segmentation; server sprawl management; vulnerability monitoring; intrusion detection and prevention; and end-point protection such as anti-virus, anti-spam and encryption.

McAfee customers can consolidate these capabilities with the ePO software’s proven architecture for cross-product integration, risk management, provisioning control, reporting, auditing and compliance to take advantage of a full-spectrum solution for both physical and virtual network and systems security.

“Through the integration of McAfee's physical and virtual machine security with Catbird's virtual network security in a single management console, we have a powerful solution in the rapidly growing area of data center virtualization,” said Ed Barry, Senior Director, McAfee Security Innovation Alliance. “McAfee was an early visionary in delivering virtualized solutions to our customers. The enhanced security, ease of use and automation of this integrated solution will allow our customers to fully leverage the efficiency and cost savings that virtualization provides with even greater confidence that their assets are well protected.”

Catbird’s V-Security 2.0 delivers a broad spectrum of security and compliance assurance to enterprise customers deploying virtualization solutions. V-Security employs Catbird’s encyclopedic Virtual Infrastructure Security Engine (VISE™) to correlate hundreds of machine attributes with access control, network segmentation, vulnerability and IDP security events, across multiple clusters and data centers, to deliver broad asset awareness and defense-in-depth. The flagship solution features VMShield® 2.0 with TrustZones™ and V-Tracker™, the latest innovation in Catbird’s visionary line of cross-platform, non-invasive, stateless Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) security solutions for virtual networks.

“We are thrilled to partner with McAfee on virtualization security and have our award-winning security solution for virtual infrastructure become compatible with the ePolicy Orchestrator platform and earn the coveted McAfee Compatibility logo,” Costa added.

For more information about Catbird’s V-Security 2.0 suite, visit www.catbird.com.

About Catbird

Catbird is the industry leader in comprehensive security and compliance for virtualized environments, and winner of the 2007 VARBusiness Technology Innovator Award for Virtualization, the Windows IT Pro Best of Tech·Ed 2008 IT Pro Editors Choice Award for Security and a Best of Show Finalist at VMworld 2008. Via Catbird V-Security and the “Catbird” virtual appliance, Catbird is the only company delivering best-practice security for Hypervisor, Guest VMs and Policy/Regulatory Security Compliance. As companies migrate mainstream servers and desktops to virtual environments, uncertainty over security and compliance can impact deployment plans. Catbird’s protection eliminates these worries and keeps virtualization plans on track. Founded in 2000 by Internet pioneer Ron Lachman, the company’s in-the-cloud architecture protects thousands of customer systems and networks who rely on Catbird and its partners to protect their valuable IT assets from external and internal threats. The private company is based in Silicon Valley, and is currently recruiting new partners and resellers.

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