Virtual security gets close to reality

摘要

IT security vendor Symantec Corp. is collaborating with Intel Corp. to bring virtualization technology to desktop security, executives from the two companies announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last month. Symantec will next year release a new intrusion prevention system (IPS) called Virtual Security Solution, which is installed on a virtual machine running on PCs with Intel vPro technology. Computers with vPro technology, powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo processor, use a hypervisor to create a virtual machine running alongside the host operating system, explained Leo Cohen, vice-president and fellow at Symantec's security technology group.