F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments
F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments Release Notes Copyright © 1998-2013 F-Secure Corporation. All Rights Reserved. 1 Overview F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments (SVCE) is the solution to protect your virtualized servers and desktops against malware, exploits, network-based attacks and other security threats. It allows to improve operation efficiency and reduce impact to virtual infrastructure while ensuring up-todate security and policy compliance. The solution is hypervisor agnostic and thus can be deployed in private or public cloud environments based on any virtualization platforms. F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments release includes: F-Secure client and server protection: o F-Secure Client Security 11.50 o F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 11.50 o F-Secure Server Security 10.50 o F-Secure E-mail and Server Security 10.50 F-Secure Scanning and Reputation Server 11.00 o Virtual appliance for VMware ESXi, vSphere hypervisor o Virtual appliance for Citrix XenServer, Xen hypervisor o Virtual appliance for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor F-Secure Policy Manager: o F-Secure Policy Manager for Windows 11.10 o F-Secure Policy Manager for Linux 10.30 F-Secure client and server security products are installed on virtual desktops and servers respectively. They include the Offload Scanning Agent (OSA) that interacts with F-Secure Scanning and Reputation Server for malware scanning, content analysis and reputation, which minimizes resource consumption and performance impact to the virtualization infrastructure. F-Secure Scanning and Reputation Server is a dedicated security server based on a hardened Linux operating system and employs technologies used in the existing F-Secure award-winning end-point and server protection products. It comes as a virtual appliance that can be easily deployed in your virtualization (VI or VDI) environment. RELEASE NOTES F-SECURE SECURITY FOR VIRTUAL AND CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS All parts of the solution are centrally managed with F-Secure Policy Manager. 2 How it works The following diagram explains how different parts of the solution are deployed and work with each other in the virtual environment. F-Secure Policy Manager – provides centralized management for F-Secure security protection installed on physical and virtual machines. F-Secure Policy Manager is available for Windows and Linux platforms and should be installed on a separate virtual machine. F-Secure Policy Manager Console is the administration console to define policies, deploy F-Secure software and monitor status of security in your virtual environment. F-Secure Policy Manager Console can be installed to a separate or the same virtual machine running F-Secure Policy Manager Server. F-Secure Client Security and F-Secure Server Security – endpoint security protection installed on physical or virtual desktops and servers respectively. It includes F-Secure Management Agent (FSMA), Anti-Virus (FSAV), Offload Scanning Agent (OSA), DeepGuard, Web Traffic Scanning (WTS), © 2013 F-SECURE CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2/5 RELEASE NOTES F-SECURE SECURITY FOR VIRTUAL AND CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS Email Scanning and Browsing Protection (BP). F-Secure Client Security also includes Firewall, Device Control and Software Updater components. F-Secure Management Agent – communicates with F-Secure Policy Manager, applies defined policies and sends status information and alerts to the Policy Manager Server. F-Secure Automatic Update Agent – responsible for downloading and installing software and database updates. F-Secure Offload Scanning Agent – installed together with F-Secure Client Security and F-Secure Server Security to a virtual machine in order to offload malware scanning and content reputation checking to a dedicated server running F-Secure Scanning and Reputation Server. This allows to minimize the performance impact to virtualization infrastructure. F-Secure Scanning and Reputation Server – the virtual appliance based on hardened Linux platform. It provides malware scanning and content reputation services. 3 Compatibility and Requirements 3.1 Supported virtualization platforms The following virtualization platforms are supported in this release: VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.1 with VMware vCenter Server 5.0, 5.1 Citrix XenServer 6.2 or newer Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008R2, 2012, 2012 R2 Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.x Other virtualization platforms are supported on a “Best Effort” basis: we will try to help you, but it may not be possible to reproduce all problems, and we cannot guarantee a solution. 3.2 Supported guest operating systems F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments solution can protect virtualized servers and desktops running the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 8.1 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 © 2013 F-SECURE CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 3/5 RELEASE NOTES F-SECURE SECURITY FOR VIRTUAL AND CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 Microsoft Small Business Server 2011, Standard edition Microsoft Small Business Server 2011, Essentials Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Essentials Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Note: All Operating Systems should have the latest service pack from Microsoft installed. For the latest information and more details about supported OS platforms, refer to the product release notes. 3.3 System requirements Consult the product release notes for system requirements required to deploy and use F-Secure SVCE elements. 3.4 Centralized management The following versions of F-Secure Policy Manager are required to centrally manage F-Secure SVCE solution: F-Secure Policy Manager (Windows) 11.10 or newer F-Secure Policy Manager (Linux) 10.30 or newer F-Secure Policy Manager can be deployed on a dedicated Windows or Linux virtual machine. Please check F-Secure Policy Manager’s release notes for system requirements and latest information about supported platforms. 4 Installation For detailed installation instructions, please refer to F-Secure Security for Virtual and Cloud Environments deployment guide. 5 Licensing and installation keys A license key is required to install F-Secure client and server protection products as well as Scanning and Reputation Server. The full and trial installation keycodes are available in F-Secure Partner Portal under “Partner Downloads” > Keycodes. F-Secure Policy Manager does not require an installation keycode. However, in order to use it for other than evaluation purposes, the product must be registered with a valid customer number provided with the license certificate. © 2013 F-SECURE CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 4/5 RELEASE NOTES 6 F-SECURE SECURITY FOR VIRTUAL AND CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS Contact information and feedback We look forward to hearing your comments and feedback on the product functionality, usability and performance. Please report any technical issues via: F-Secure support web site: http://support.f-secure.com/ F-Secure Community: http://community.f-secure.com/t5/Business/ctp/Business_Security_Solutions When reporting a technical problem, please attach the F-Secure diagnostic report(s) to the feedback. This report contains basic information about hardware, operating system, network configuration and installed F-Secure and third-party software. Also please provide the following information about your virtual environment: - 7 The name and version of hypervisor software Resources (CPU, RAM, etc.) on host(s) running the hypervisor software The name and version of VI/VDI software in use Number of virtual machines running F-Secure Client Security Number of virtual machines running F-Secure Server Security Number of deployed F-Secure SRS servers F-Secure license terms F-Secure license terms are included in the software. You must read and accept them before you can install and use the software. © 2013 F-SECURE CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 5/5
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