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Shavlik secures offline virtual machines
Shavlik Technologies has developed a way to patch all virtual machines, even one that are offline. This provides organizations with the ability to assess and remediate the patch levels of their physical servers, online virtual machines and offline virtual machines for both VMware and Microsoft virtual environments.
Shavlik has leveraged its agentless technology to reach across the entire data center to deliver the same level of security to offline virtual images as it delivers to physical servers and mounted, online virtual machines. Mark Shavlik, CEO of Shavlik Technologies explained the solution, "Most of the current solutions available today for virtualization security allow companies to assess and audit for gaps in security and compliance, but then you're on your own to determine how to close those gaps, which reduces some of the efficiencies gained by moving to virtualization in the first place. Shavlik's philosophy has always been to simplify and automate the entire security and compliance management cycle: 1. Establish a known security state, 2. Assess for gaps in that state, and 3. Close those gaps, and this should occur continually and automatically from a single solution."
Shavlik NetChk Protect's new features to secure offline virtual images are:
- Extend Shavlik's Any Patch, Any Where assessment technology to offline virtual images
- Fully automate continuous patch assessment and deployment to lower costs and reduce demand on IT staff
- Drive a higher state of security through continuous identification and remediation of system security gaps
- Aggregate reporting allows a view of everything on the network in a single, comprehensive report