VMware vShield Endpoint strengthens security for virtual machines and their hosts while improving performance by orders of magnitude for endpoint protection. vShield Endpoint enables offloading of antivirus and anti-malware processing to dedicated security-hardened virtual machines delivered by VMware partners. The solution is designed to leverage existing investments and allows customers to manage antivirus and antimalware policies for virtualized environments with the same management interfaces they use to secure physical environments.

VMware vShield Endpoint is a unique solution that optimizes antivirus. vShield Endpoint improves performance by offloading key antivirus and anti-malware functions to a security virtual machine, eliminating the antivirus agent footprint in virtual machines. This advanced architecture frees up system resources, improves performance of antivirus and anti-malware functions and eliminates the risk of antivirus “storms” (overloaded resources during scheduled scans and signature updates). vShield Endpoint enhances security with a hardened, tamperproof security virtual machine (delivered by VMware partners) that uses robust and secure hypervisor introspection capabilities in vSphere, preventing compromise of the antivirus and antimalware service itself. Demonstrating compliance and satisfying auditor requirements are enabled through detailed logging of activity from the antivirus or anti-malware service.