Download Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise for Storage 1.0 Beta

Mcafee released the first beta version of its VirusScan Enterprise for Storage package a few days ago. This is the development of VirusScan for Netapp 7.1 where it will be equipped with the latest detection techniques from Virusscan Enterprise 8.7i and will support other appliances in addition to Netapp by using icap for exchanging data. For more information and a brief explanation of how the data on the appliances is actually checked, we refer you to this manual in pdf format. To get this beta version you do need an account in the Mcafee corporate beta program and you will have to take into account the expiration date of January 31, 2009. The announcement of this first beta version looks like this:

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Storage 1.0 Beta

McAfee is pleased to announce the Beta release for VirusScan Enterprise for Storage 1.0. We encourage you to participate in this beta actively and provide us your valuable feedback through beta forums as well as weekly conference calls that will greatly help us in improving the product quality and release a robust product.

VirusScan Enterprise for Storage (VSE for Storage) 1.0 is a new Windows server-based product that provides anti-malware protection to network attached storage (NAS) appliances made by Network Appliance (NetApp) as well as other NAS appliances that support the ICAP protocol . In this release, the ICAP scanner is qualified to support Sun StorageTek NAS appliances with ICAP support. VSE for Storage 1.0 provides on-demand scanning services to attached NAS appliances and helps protect the NAS system from malware threats. When a client system attempts to access a file on the NAS, the filer’s operating system (eg Data ONTAP™ in case of NetApp NAS) determines if the file needs to be scanned. If the file needs to be scanned, the filer sends a request to the scan server and VSE for Storage scans the file and if necessary, takes action on the file.

VSE for Storage is a replacement for VirusScan for NetApp 7.1.

Key features of VSE for Storage 1.0 are:

• Architectural enhancements leveraging improvements in the VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.7i base product
• Uses the latest 5300 anti-malware scanning engine
• Completely configurable, manageable and reportable either stand-alone or through ePO 3.6.x and ePO 4.x
• Dedicated storage scanner with dedicated configuration console
• Dedicated reporting capability through ePO 4.0
• Support for NetApp DataOnTap 6.1 and above, including DataOnTap 7.x
• Support for ICAP with dedicated console for ICAP configuration: VSE for Storage 1.0 supports Sun NAS appliances
• Support for Quarantine Manager in VSE for Storage
• Supported platforms: Windows Server 2003 (32- and 64-bit), Server 2008 (32- and 64-bit)