Entrust CloudControl vs Sophos Virtualization Security comparison

Cloud security solutions help defend and protect the most important asset in the IT inventory – the hypervisor. For most organizations, their virtualization infrastructure is the crown jewel of the shop and the hypervisor the one ring to rule them all. With that it mind, it is more important than ever to pay particular attention to cloud security solutions that help better harden the hypervisor, lock down access and provide better visibility into and control over the environment.

With Entrust CloudControl you get a variety of security and policy enhancements without impacting the GUI that your vSphere, NSX and ESXi admins already know and use. Deployed as a transparent proxy, Entrust CloudControl mediates the actions taken by hyperadministrators using familiar interfaces. Approved actions are allowed, disapproved actions are blocked and additional approval is enabled.

Sophos Virtualization Security is designed to efficiently secure virtual environments running on either VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V. It eliminates scan storms and update storms by offloading malware detection to a centralized security virtual machine. It Keeps Virtualized servers running at peak performance while staying protected from malicious attacks with on-access, on-demand, or scheduled malware detection, as well as automated, multi-component clean-up. Sophos Virtualization Security provides real-time capabilities to provide strong protection for your servers and data against malware, including zero-day attacks.