Chapter 10. Configuring vShield Endpoint
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Installing vShield Endpoint
- Configuring vShield Endpoint using an antivirus
Introduction
The vShield Endpoint component of the vShield suite is specifically designed to enable efficient scanning of virtual machines by interfacing with third-party endpoint vendors. By allowing a security appliance to scan many virtual machines, the computing resource requirements are offloaded to a single security appliance instead of 30 virtual machines, for example. Ordinary antivirus scans take place within the OS of each VM. The vShield Endpoint scanning takes place at the hypervisor level, which minimizes compute resources and has a positive effect on virtual machine ...
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