Catbird announced that it has joined the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) to provide organizations with the solution for securing virtual infrastructure. Under the SIA program, Catbird will integrate V-Security with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software, addressing head-on the security and compliance implications of moving from "P to V" and enabling customers to seamlessly extend their security and compliance enforcement strategies across both companies' platforms and both virtual and physical networks.

"We are delighted to add Catbird to the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance," said Joe Gottlieb, vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances, McAfee. "Virtual environments present new security challenges and Catbird has responded with innovative network security offerings that complement McAfee's system security suites and management solutions for virtualized data centers and desktops."

Catbird's V-Security product suite provides security, visibility, change control, separation of duties, and validation by deploying a virtual appliance inside VMware ESX or Citrix XenServer. V-Security combines network security technologies with hypervisor and VM data to deliver benefits such as policy compliance, and enforcement of virtual network segmentation, server sprawl management and intrusion prevention. Integration with McAfee ePO software will enable customers to consolidate these capabilities with a broad portfolio of virtual and physical, network and system security solutions.

"Enterprise customers expect to use the same tools to manage security across both their physical and virtual infractructure," said Edmundo Costa, Catbird COO. "With ePolicy Orchestrator software integration, McAfee customers will be able to employ a single dashboard to configure, monitor and enforce the security posture of their entire network -- both virtual and physical. The combined service of the two companies brings broad-based and in-depth comprehensive security and compliance to current and future state-of-the-art data centers."

Catbird is a pioneer in the virtual security industry. Its V-Security suite is a comprehensive security and compliance solution for virtual and physical infrastructures. V-Security is a fully-automated Security-as-a-Service solution built upon a stateless architecture that is 100% plug-and-play for both physical and virtual environments. V-Security includes VMShield, a dedicated security solution specifically designed to control and secure the virtual machine console, and HypervisorShield to guard against unauthorized hypervisor network access and attack. Via its IPS/IDS, Rogue VM monitoring, firewall and policy enforcement, Catbird is one-stop shopping for the most critical areas in virtual network security.