SED DCS Server Product Brief

Product Brief Data Center Security: Server
Overview
Symantec® Data Center Security: Server (DCS:S) is a purpose-built
CUSTOMER BENEFITS security offering for hypervisor, middleware, and guest VMs with agentless
anti‑malware protection, agentless network IPS, and file reputation
• An out-of-the box dashboard
services for workloads running on VMware NSX platforms. DCS:S enhances
provides insight into the health and
operational effectiveness in the data center by providing a single-instance
status of your data center.
security service for each host, protecting all virtual machines within that host.
• Agentless anti-malware and
agentless network IPS help optimize Figure 1: Data Center Security: Server
the performance of networks and
applications for guests and hosts.
• File and URL reputation services
complement the agentless malware
protection service.
• Automatic deployment of virtual
appliances enables the workloads
to scale while minimizing any
additional OpEx cost.
• A single-instance security service
for each host increases operational
effectiveness.
• Security provided at the hypervisor
level eliminates the need for virus
scanning on each virtual machine.
• Centralized management of virus
definitions eliminates the need for
virus updates to every guest VM.
• Enable always-on security during Why DCS:S?
new workload provisioning to DCS:S is a good fit for your organization if your team is asking any of the
reduce the security tax. following questions:
• How do I dynamically provision application-level security for newly created

virtual workloads for NSX?
• How do I deliver dynamic and operationally efficient anti-malware and
network IPS protection without taxing network resources and application
performance?
• How can I provision security so that it is able to keep up with the speed of
business and IT?
• How can I scale up security as I scale up infrastructure and applications?
• How can I manage and secure assets in a data center with minimal training
for admins?
• How can I leverage a planned and current investment in VMware NSX to
enhance security in a software-defined data center?
• How can I reduce the resource impact that is associated with scanning and
updating definition files, such as in scan and update storms?
Data Center Security: Server
Product Brief
What Is New in DCS:S?

The following features and capabilities are new in DCS:S:
THREAT LANDSCAPE
• Easier deployment reduces the time to roll-out for new deployments and
OVERVIEW upgrades for DCS: Server and DCS: Server Advanced
Hundreds of millions of new pieces
• High availability and scalability
of malware are created each year,
and malware authors have various • Agentless anti-malware protection for workloads running on a VMware
tricks to avoid detection. One trick NSX platform
is to spot security vulnerabilities • DCS:S continues to deliver an agentless anti-malware solution by
by testing for virtual machines
integrating directly at the hypervisor, thus offloading anti-malware
before executing their code. Some
scanning to a Security Virtual Appliance (SVA), which delivers higher
malware variants are also able to
performance and a greater density of Guest Virtual Machines.
detect the presence of a virtualized
environment. • Automatic deployment of Security Virtual Appliance: DCS:S leverages a
single SVA to deliver threat protection for VMware NSX by automatically
deploying to VMware ESX, which allows it to scale to the size of the data
center.
DCS:S Standard Features

The following features are standard in DCS:S:
• A single Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) for each ESX host

• A simplified UI with a rich user experience and simplified policy and asset
management for VMware NSX
• Agentless anti-malware threat protection:
– Supports VMware NSX, delivering agentless threat protection for
workloads running on virtual environments
– Anti-malware combined with Insight Reputation
– Automatic deployment of the Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) in NSX
environments (SVA), which allows you to scale out infrastructure
– Group asset and protection policy
• Integration with DEEPSIGHT® provides reputation security technology to
files and URLs:
– Automatic deployment and provision of Security Virtual Appliance to
an ESX host in a cluster
– Integration at the hypervisor, providing real-time detection and
remediation of malware infection
– Always-on security with best-in-class security protection technology
– Part of an extensive telemetry collection network
Data Center Security: Server

Product Brief
Data Center Security Solutions

Symantec Data Center Security enables organizations to harden their physical and virtual servers, securely
transition into software-defined data centers, and apply application-centric security across their public, private, and
private-cloud environments.
The Data Center Security product family includes:
Data Center Security: Server (DCS:S) Data Center Security: Server Advanced (DCS:SA)
DCS:S delivers frictionless threat protection with DCS:SA offers security detection, monitoring, and
agentless anti-malware, network based IPS, and file prevention capabilities for both physical and virtual
reputation services for VMware environments. server infrastructures. Delivering agentless anti‑malware
protection and security monitoring for virtual and
DCS:S supports an in-guest quarantine feature to physical infrastructures and across the AWS and
isolate suspected malware files and remediate them OpenStack clouds, DCS:SA protects both physical and
based on policy. DCS:S automatically delivers Security virtual servers by delivering applications and protected
Virtual Appliances (SVA) that scale out, resulting in white-listing, fine-grained intrusion detection and
huge savings in OpEx costs. prevention; file, system, and administrative lockdown;
and file integrity and configuration monitoring. DCS:SA
also supports Docker Containers and full hardening of
OpenStack Keystone.
For more information, please visit:

www.broadcom.com/products/cybersecurity/endpoint/hybrid-cloud/data-center-security
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Product Brief Data Center Security: Server

• How do I dynamically provision application-level security for newly created

What Is New in DCS:S?

DCS:S Standard Features

• A single Security Virtual Appliance (SVA) for each ESX host

Data Center Security: Server

Data Center Security Solutions

The Data Center Security product family includes:

For more information, please visit:

For more information, visit our website at: www.broadcom.com

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