The following are the advantages of Virtual Sensors:
As with any virtual technology, Virtual Sensors bring in savings in terms of space, cost of the appliance, maintenance costs, power to run the appliances, power for air-conditioning, and so on.
Virtual Sensors enable inspection of traffic that never leaves a virtualization environment. Additionally, you can implement security policies, (Exploit, DoS, Firewall, Advanced Malware policies) on this traffic.
Virtual Sensors are very easy and quick to deploy. Therefore, they can scale up to any rapid expansions of your virtual network.
You can deploy Virtual Sensors without any physical access to the virtualization environment.
Though protecting virtual networks has its unique challenges, there is no compromise on security with respect to Virtual Sensors. It protects networks similar to a physical Sensor, including features such as application identification and visualization, Firewall policies, Advanced Malware policies and so on. Moreover, just like physical Sensors, a Virtual Sensor can integrate and communicate with other Trellix products.
Based on factors such as the size of your network and network architecture, it is possible to use Virtual Sensors to protect both your virtual and physical networks.
You can use the same Manager as a single point-of-control for managing your physical and Virtual Sensors, which provides you with the following advantages. This Manager can also be installed on a VM.
It provides the flexibility of using virtual, physical, or a mixture of virtual and physical Sensors to protect your networks.
Managing Sensors becomes simplified and centralized.
You can define the security policies to both virtual and physical networks at one place. So, the task of defining and implementing security policies for the virtual networks still rests with your security experts.
It provides a consolidated view of the threat information from both virtual and physical Sensors.
It enables consistent and consolidated report generation for all your networks.
Virtual Sensors are self-contained when it comes to protecting your networks. There is no requirement for any third-party applications to protect virtual or physical networks.
Virtualization of virtual ports is available, which means that you can virtualize the interfaces of a physical Sensor by creating sub-interfaces based on VLAN or CIDR. Following the same procedure, you can create sub-interfaces of the monitoring ports of a Virtual Sensor.