TREND MICRO EXTENDS PROTECTION AGAINST RISING CYBERCRIME
KUALA LUMPUR, 18th September 2007 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704,), a leader in network antivirus and content security software and services, today showcased a range of Enterprise products that shield organisations from web based threats. These proven security solutions have been upgraded and enhanced to offer proactive seamless protection against system vulnerabilities.
The rising number of creative scamming online has prompted Trend Micro to expand its protection forte by enhancing its existing product line. Four appliances have been upgraded and new versions have been released into the market to offer a comprehensive protection strategy for organisations. The appliances serve as a guard house to vet and scan through all incoming information via vulnerable communications channels on a corporate computer.
It plays the role as an immediate threat detector and neutralizer for multiple threats through its multiple scanning, filtering and blocking system. The products on showcase also cover mobile communications tools for employees who are always on the move and are exposed to more virus attacks due to mobility.
“As dependency on the internet grows, so too, are the online crimes which grow in sophistication. This dependency combined with a new generation of blended, targeted and regional web threats leave businesses more vulnerable than ever before,” says Chin Kah Yi, Senior Technical Consultant, Trend Micro (M) Sdn Bhd.
As a pro-active solution to this rising cyber crime, companies should adopt a more preventive strategy by safeguarding their data and access paths on the web for their employees to perform daily operations without the fear of opening up windows of opportunity for cyber criminals.
Office Scan 8.0
Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ 8.0. is the first corporate solution to have the new Web reputation technology blended into its functionality, OfficeScan 8.0 is also the first corporate desktop security solution to be awarded Microsoft™ Windows Vista certification. The solution provides greater protection against Web threats through the addition of Web Security Rating and enhanced anti-spyware technology.
OfficeScan 8.0 provides businesses a powerful layer of protection against multiple types of attack, including file-based malware, spyware, viruses, rootkits and network attacks such as hacking attempts. With mobile users often connecting to the Internet from remote connections such as airports, hotels and cafés, OfficeScan 8.0 extends protection beyond the corporate network with innovative Web threat protection technology. The new technology protects endpoints from accessing malware-related websites, based upon a dynamic evaluation of individual DNS-domain reputation.
Trend Micro helps organizations deploy the right mix of products and technologies at the proper points of their IT infrastructure to effectively and efficiently mitigate the business risks arising from various messaging threats. This includes email protection, complementary Web security, and extended messaging security, protecting various methods of electronic communication on which organizations increasingly depend.
InterScan Web Security Appliance 3.1
Web sites are rapidly becoming the number one infection vector for malware. Unlike past malware that arrived bearing a single payload, today’s profit driven malware is designed to download multiple malware components without the victims’ knowledge.
Through its multi-pronged approach to security threats, InterScan Web Security Appliance is designed to solve many of the security challenges facing IT departments and corporate end users. The enhanced version now includes real-time Web reputation from Trend Micro, which assesses the safety of a Web page based on both behavior and content. This industry-leading reputation technology complements the powerful content scanning and URL filtering capabilities the product has had for years.
InterScan Messaging Security Appliance 7.0
Trend Micro InterScan™ Messaging Security Suite is a gateway email security software solution that integrates multi-tiered anti-spam and anti-phishing with award-winning antivirus and anti-spyware. This comprehensive email protection also provides content filtering to support compliance and to help prevent data loss. With a highly scalable platform and centralized management for easy administration, the solution is optimized to block the full range of standalone, blended-threat, and customer-specific attacks at the gateway.
Three distinct tiers of anti-spam protection include Email Reputation, IP Profiler, and the anti-spam composite engine. Email Reputation blocks spam before reaching the gateway using the world’s largest, most trusted reputation database while dynamic reputation services stop zombies and bot nets as they first emerge. IP Profiler applies automatic, customer-specific reputation services, stopping spam and viruses, and creates a firewall against DHA and bounced mail attacks. Anti-spam composite engine combines multiple protective techniques including patent-pending image spam technology and embedded URL reputation. Anti-phishing leverages signatures, heuristics, and reputation services to stop phishing, including corporate spear-phishing attacks
This appliance covers all three areas on one dynamic security platform with Hosted Services for Web and email reputation and URL Filtering, performance-optimized gateway appliance platform, and Desktop Cleanup Service for automated cleanup of desktops from malware or spyware.
This new edition adds the increased security of Trend Micro Web reputation technology to its integrated antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, content filtering, URL filtering and anti-bot functionality. New feature enhancements include image spam protection and data leakage prevention.
The appliance has recently been awarded premium level certification by West Coast Labs for its expert anti-spam technology. Additionally, in a recent anti-spam benchmark test conducted by independent testing agency, Opus One, multi-tiered anti-spam from Trend Micro achieved the highest catch rate of 97.36 percent and a competitive low false positive rate when compared to several popular anti-spam solutions.
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