Which feature is associated with protecting virtual machine environments specifically?

The feature that is specifically associated with protecting virtual machine environments is Sophos Security for Virtual Machines. This solution is designed to address the unique security challenges that virtualized environments face, such as the need for a lightweight agentless protection that minimizes resource usage on virtual machines.

Sophos Security for Virtual Machines provides security features optimized for virtual environments, ensuring effective threat detection and response without affecting the performance of the virtual machines. It uses technologies like scanning, behavioral analysis, and web filtering tailored for VM workloads, ensuring that security measures do not disrupt the operations and performance typically required in virtualized infrastructures.

Other options like endpoint protection typically focus on physical devices and might not be optimized for virtual machines. Disk encryption is about securing data at rest, and data loss prevention aims to control the transfer of sensitive information but does not specifically address the unique needs of virtual machine protection as comprehensively as Sophos Security for Virtual Machines does.