Bitdefender presents its Hypervisor Introspection Solution

Bitdefender has announced the general availability of its Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection solution to protect data centers and organizations from advanced attacks.

Bitdefender with its Hypervisor Introspection now becomes the first, and currently the only, security vendor to offer a commercial hypervisor-based security solution. This security layer offers organizations unparalleled visibility and resilience when facing sophisticated attacks. As described in a recent IDC Perspective report “Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection bridges the security capability gap between context-aware endpoint security solutions and context-unaware network security solutions”.

Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection is the first truly agentless security solution to work entirely from outside the operating system, by leveraging the unique Citrix XenServer Direct Inspect APIs to gain access to raw memory. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection is designed to monitor this memory space by leveraging XenServer, effectively raising the cost of attack.

Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection faced a real life test with the recent EternalBlue Zero day also leveraged by the recent WannaCry ransomware. The solution detected EternalBlue regardless of the discovery of the MS 17-010 vulnerability. Had EternalBlue been in the wild prior to the March 14, 2017 date, Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection would still have protected servers.

“While the hypervisor has enabled data centers to realize major improvements in resource utilization, business continuity and workload isolation, no security vendor has ever leveraged its true security potential,” said Harish Agastya, VP of Enterprise Solutions, Bitdefender. “Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection is a technological breakthrough that delivers something unparalleled for the security industry and practitioners; leverage the hypervisor and get into God mode against advanced attacks.”

"Citrix XenServer with Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection gives us this uniquely clever security edge,” says Harri Ruoho, Business Manager at IT services company Sofor, an early customer of Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection.