Bitdefender, a security solutions provider, has announced that Security for Virtualized Environments (SVE) is now available as security as a service on Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. For customers seeking a flexible licensing model, the new service enables organizations to choose security licensing based on administrative and financial requirements – on-demand per hour utility-based monthly subscription.
“Security for Virtualized Environments offered as security as a service on AWS Marketplace was developed to extend the benefits of the cloud, giving organizations security how they want it and when they need it,” says Robert Krauss, director enterprise sales and alliances, North America, Bitdefender. “With our licensing model, organizations have uncomplicated and adaptable security solutions, in terms of administration and scalability, and like a utility, businesses pay for it as they need it.”
Security for Virtualized Environments, delivered as a service, provides integrated, intuitive management and automated deployment for organizations seeking enterprise-level security with horizontal scalability. Based on gravity architecture, SVE’s security as a service means customers have centralized management and visibility, making day-to-day administration of security solutions easier. SVE also provides simple deployment of the silent agent – either with AWS tags or in the AMI – saving time, management, and administration costs.
Utilizing SVE’s security as a service provides better virtual machine instance performance compared to traditional antimalware in the cloud, according to the company. Performance gains are achieved by offloading much of the anti-malware functionality from each virtual machine instance to the SVE security as a service. This is accomplished through patent-pending optimization technologies from Bitdefender that streamline the antimalware processes and reduce resource utilization on each virtual machine instance.
