McAfee today announced four new Data Center Security Suites to help secure servers and databases in the data center. The suites offer a unique combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualization technologies for protecting servers and virtual desktops. These solutions provide optimal security for servers and databases in physical, virtualized and cloud-based data centers, with minimal impact on server resources which is a key demand for data centers.

“Performance and security are key concerns for servers in the physical, virtualized or cloud-based data centers,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst, Information Security and Networking at Enterprise Security Group. “The new server security suites from McAfee, based on its application whitelisting, virtualization and blacklisting and AV technologies, provide an enhanced security posture while maintaining the high server performance needs of the data center.”

The suites offer customers the ability to protect their physical and virtual servers and virtual desktops with a unique combination of technologies in a single solution.

• McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server provides a
  complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized
  virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of
  all types
• McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Server–Hypervisor Edition
  provides a complete set of blacklisting, whitelisting, and optimized
  virtualization support capabilities for basic security on servers of
  all types and is licensed per Hypervisor
• McAfee Data Center Security Suite for Virtual Desktop
  Infrastructure provides comprehensive security for virtual desktop
  deployments without compromising performance or the user experience
• McAfee Database Server Protection provides data base activity
  monitoring and vulnerability assessment in a single suite, for all
  major database servers in the data center

“McAfee is leading the industry with these new solutions for protecting servers in the data center,” said Candace Worley, senior vice president and general manager of endpoint security at McAfee. “The combination of whitelisting, blacklisting and virtualization in a single solution, offers an optimal security posture for protecting servers in the data centers. These solutions address the need in the industry to offer solutions that provide the highest level of protection with minimal impact on the resources they are deployed on and in a wide range of customized licensing options.”