The Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 6.0 Light Agent solution, hereinafter also referred to as "Kaspersky Security", is an integrated solution that provides comprehensive protection of virtual machines against various types of information security threats, network attacks, and phishing attacks.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 6.0 Light Agent protects virtual machines running Linux guest operating systems. To protect virtual machines running Windows guest operating systems, use the Light Agent for Windows component included in Kaspersky Security for Virtualization 5.2 Light Agent.
Kaspersky Security protects virtual machines on the following virtualization platforms:
Some limitations apply to the installation and operation of the solution in virtual infrastructures running on the Enterprise Cloud Platform VeiL, SharxBase, "Brest" Virtualization Tools software package, zVirt Virtualization System, ROSA Virtualization, RED Virtualization, VMManager Infrastructure, SpaceVM Cloud Platform, Basis.DynamiX Cloud Platform, and R-Virtualization server virtualization system. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
The Kaspersky Security solution is optimized to support maximum performance of the virtual machines that are protected by the solution.
The solution protects virtual machines running guest server operating systems and guest desktop operating systems.
The Kaspersky Security solution can be used in multitenancy mode. This mode of using the solution allows you to protect isolated virtual infrastructures in the tenant organization or units within a single organization (hereinafter also referred to as "tenants").
The solution includes the following components:
The Kaspersky Security solution uses Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux as the Light Agent for Linux.
To install and manage Kaspersky Security, you need Kaspersky Security Center, Kaspersky's remote centralized application management system.