McAfee announced the first public release of Virtual NSP, a full-featured next generation Virtual Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solution that runs on VMWare and is  designed to meet the unique demands of virtual environments. The rapid evolution and adoption of software defined data centers is driving the need for dynamic, easy to configure and deploy virtual security solutions.  Virtual NSP enables customers to protect their data center traffic (inter-VM, network-to-VM) with transparent deployment modes. It is also a foundational security function required to orchestrate and manage security for SDN enabled networks.   Virtual NSP has full feature parity with our appliance based NSP. Customers can use a single instance of Network Security Manager (NSM) to manage both physical and virtual NSP deployments. Customers having VMware vShield licenses can leverage virtual NSP's integration with VMWare, which offers a VM-aware (Virtual machine) dashboard and the ability to quarantine an offending/infected VM. Virtual NSP also integrates natively [...]