Sophos Virtualization Security Overview

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What is Sophos Virtualization Security?

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.

Sophos Virtualization Security Buyer's Guide

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Sophos Virtualization Security Customers

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Pricing Advice

What users are saying about Sophos Virtualization Security pricing:

"For virtualization security, the cost is approximately $50 USD per seat."

Sophos Virtualization Security Reviews

Mohamed Y Ahmed

Technical & Pre-Sales Manager at GateLock

Sep 30, 2019

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Good performance, scalable, and multi-platform

What is our primary use case?

They have two deployment models for this solution. The first is the full package endpoint, on-premises solution. This gives the customer all of its security features, like the ability to lock down servers. This is a resource-heavy deployment. The second type of deployment is the SVM (Security Virtual Machine) solution. This is a virtual appliance. We install it to allow communication between all of the virtual machines and the management, also. This deployment will not give the customer all of the features available in the full package. The choice between deployment models is based on the… more »

Pros and Cons

"The SVM deployment has very good performance."

"The solution would be improved if all of the advanced features were included in the SVM."

What other advice do I have?

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to take care when choosing the deployment model. They have to know which restrictive access servers and which published servers are needed to get the most security and the most performance. The biggest lesson that I have learned from working with this solution is that all of the virtualization platforms are equal. It is just a change in the name. When running optimally, they are all the same, but the configuration may be different. There is now a firewall inside the virtual platform, which is something that didn't exist before. We have…

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Arulmanoj Luis

Network Security Engineer at Tatva networks pvt ltd

Jan 10, 2020

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Good MAC-based security for VPN, but client-level bandwidth allocation does not work properly

What is our primary use case?

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Some people have requirements for this type of solution, such as setting up a VPN or using a remote connection. It will give them a mechanism for authentication.