Recently, the agentless enterprise cloud security solution jointly developed by SmartX and AsiaInfo Security was successfully deployed in the production environment of Jiangsu Daming Industrial Technology Group (“Jiangsu Daming”).

With an integrated software-hardware security architecture, the solution strengthens host security and compliance management across Jiangsu Daming’s virtualized environment while supporting continuous, reliable business operations. It also provides a trusted security foundation for the company’s digital operations.

Background: Business Growth Brings New Security Challenges

As a leading provider of high-end stainless steel and carbon steel processing and supply chain services in China, Jiangsu Daming has extensive operations. Its core systems, including production control, supply chain management, and enterprise operations, are deployed on a hyperconverged architecture. 

As its virtualized clusters continued to expand, the company required higher levels of business continuity, data security, and compliance management. Traditional solutions focusing on host security were becoming less suited to its virtualized environment. Key challenges included:

  • Complex deployment and operations: Traditional security solutions typically require an agent to be installed on every virtual machine. This makes deployment cumbersome and increases the cost of ongoing operations and management.
  • Pressure on business continuity: During batch scans and similar tasks, traditional agent-based security solutions can cause sudden spikes in resource consumption, triggering an “antivirus storm” that can disrupt business operations and consume substantial compute resources. Delayed vulnerability remediation, weak perimeter protection, and complex compliance management further increase the security management burden.

Jiangsu Daming therefore needed a security solution that could combine strong security, operational efficiency, and scalability, while enabling unified security management for its virtualized environment without compromising business continuity.

Solution from SmartX & AsiaInfo Security: SmartX ECP + Agentless Security Protection for Industrial Productions

To address these challenges, SmartX and AsiaInfo Security deployed their joint agentless security solution for Jiangsu Daming. With a lightweight architecture, comprehensive protection, minimal business impact, and centralized management, the solution helps secure core business systems across supply chain management, production control, and enterprise operations while meeting strict requirements for performance, stability, security, and compliance.

The joint solution uses a two-layer architecture built on SmartX ECP and AsiaInfo Security’s agentless host security engine. By offloading security functions from individual VMs to the infrastructure layer, this approach avoids the traditional process of deploying agents within VMs and reduces the compute resources consumed by security components on business VMs. Through platform integration, centralized security policy management, and unified risk visibility, the solution enables centralized security management and comprehensive protection for business systems.

Solution architecture

Results: A Lightweight, Efficient, and Sustainable Industrial Security Protection System

With the joint solution from SmartX and AsiaInfo Security, Jiangsu Daming Industrial established a lighter, more centralized approach to security protection that is better suited to production environments, balancing security requirements with business performance needs.

Agentless architecture reduces business impact and improves security operations efficiency

Protection is deployed at the platform layer, eliminating the need to install clients or agents inside individual VMs. This avoids the resource consumption, performance overhead, and the slowdowns often caused by batch scans in traditional agent-based models.

The solution enables Jiangsu Daming to keep production systems running reliably 24/7 while greatly simplifying deployment, upgrade, and ongoing maintenance. It also reduces per-VM configuration and management work, improving the efficiency of IT operations.

Deep Integration Builds Stronger Security into the SmartX ECP Infrastructure

The solution was jointly developed and customized by SmartX and AsiaInfo Security to ensure performance, compatibility, and stability. Through a centralized management platform, it supports unified resource management and centralized policy delivery.

With deep integration at the infrastructure layer, Jiangsu Daming can centrally manage VM security status, distribute security policies, and monitor risks across the environment, further improving overall security operations for its virtualized infrastructure.

Defense in depth improves risk protection in the production environment

AsiaInfo Security’s agentless host security solution natively integrates core security capabilities such as antivirus, intrusion detection, asset risk hardening, and deep packet inspection, helping build multi-layer host security protection.

Based on its business needs and security roadmap, Jiangsu Daming prioritized the deployment of core antivirus capabilities in this phase. These capabilities provide accurate detection and real-time protection against common security risks in virtualized clusters, including malware such as viruses, Trojans, ransomware, and cryptomining. Without interrupting business operations, the solution can quickly identify risks and remove threats, helping protect production data and business systems.

Compliance Visibility and Control Support Industrial Auditing

To address compliance and regulatory requirements in heavy manufacturing, the solution supports security log retention, automated risk reporting, and security posture visualization.

The solution enabled Jiangsu Daming Industrial to simplify its security audit process and establish more consistent and standardized security management.

Summary

Jiangsu Daming’s practices demonstrate the reliability and suitability of the SmartX-and-AsiaInfo-Security joint solution for securing manufacturing production environments, providing a practical model for manufacturers upgrading their infrastructure security. 

SmartX will continue to work closely with AsiaInfo Security and explore ways to integrate infrastructure and security to meet evolving digital transformation needs and strengthen the security of enterprise digital operations.

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