What functionality does the Deep Security Virtual Appliance provide?

The Deep Security Virtual Appliance delivers agentless protection through security policies, which is a key functionality of this solution. This means that it can provision security measures and enforce security policies without needing to install agents on individual virtual machines. Instead, the appliance interacts with the hypervisor, which allows it to manage security functions centrally and efficiently.

This approach simplifies the deployment of security across virtual environments, reducing the operational overhead associated with managing multiple agents, and enhances scalability as new virtual machines are provisioned. Additionally, agentless protection ensures that virtual environments are secured without the performance impact that can occur when running agents on each machine.

In contrast, other options do not accurately represent the core functionality of the Deep Security Virtual Appliance; they may refer to related but distinct services or capabilities not specifically tied to its main role. For example, cloud-based data storage and analytics, user account management, and network monitoring all serve different functions and are not central to the agentless protection feature provided by the Deep Security Virtual Appliance.