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PacketMotion Extends Activity Monitoring To VMware Environments: Page 2 of 2

Enterprises will be able to monitor activity within VMware environments with the release of PacketMotion's PacketSentry Virtual Probe, a virtual machine version of its security appliance. Like the physical appliance, Virtual Probe collects and analyzes network traffic for anomalous user behavior and enforces corporate policy for security and regulatory compliance.
April 18, 2011

It is, in fact, the primary use case at South Jersey Healthcare, where Gahm's staff was using it to locate and contain a worm infecting one of his PCs when Network Computing called to interview him.

"Anti-virus software would clean it, but not tell us who put it there," he said. "We ran a report that told us who was infected, who it was, the IP address, who logged in, and went out and shut it down immediately." The benefit, he adds, comes in responding in minutes as opposed to hours spent troubleshooting, and being alerted quickly. "A lot of times we had to wait for a user to tell us there was a problem. By that time, several other computers could be infected."

Virtual Probe supports VMware vSphere version 4.0 and greater and ESX version 3.5 and greater. It will also support other hypervisors in future releases. It is priced at $4,995 for a five- pack of monitored VMs and $21,995 for a 25-pack.

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