PacketMotion, a provider of User Activity Management (UAM) solutions, announced PacketSentry Virtual Probe to secure and audit VM-to-VM communications.

The PacketSentry Virtual Probe monitors  and secures access to sensitive data in VMware clusters. It delivers PacketSentry’s application and identity-aware solution as a guest VM that does not require administrators’ knowledge of IP addresses and with minimal resource impact.

The new solution extends PacketMotion’s comprehensive security solution to virtual and cloud environments. It can monitor, databases, fileshares, Web applications, document management, among many others.

Organizations need visibility across physical and virtual environments without requiring different solutions for each and that bring the same level of audit and secure control to the virtual data center as exists today in the traditional physical data center.

Lack of visibility and control within a virtual cluster can result in unauthorized communication between VMs, mixing of trust levels within a virtual host, and failure to detect suspicious access of key information assets. This situation will result in the inability to satisfy internal audits and compliance regulations, including PCI (News - Alert), HIPAA and SOX.

Company officials say PacketSentry Virtual Probe solution dramatically changes the security capability in the virtual environment. It implements multiple controls in a single application. Running as a guest VM, it consumes just 3-5 percent of the host's CPU.

Since the Virtual Probe consumes little server CPU, memory, and I/O resources, it can be deployed ubiquitously across servers and blades in the virtual data center for complete data protection.

Paul Smith, PacketMotion chief executive officer, PacketMotion, said, “With PacketSentry, organizations have a single solution that protects their data in physical, virtual and cloud environments. The Virtual Probe uniquely delivers the visibility and control organizations need as they virtualize their data.”

The PacketSentry Virtual Probe supports VMware vSphere version 4.0 and greater, ESX version 3.5 and greater. The solution is available now from PacketMotion’s channel partners.

In December last year, PacketMotion announced it has raised an additional $2.7 million in financing, brining the company’s total Series C round of funding to $8.4 million.