The Great Small Business Security Divide

Kuala Lumpur– November 27, 2008 When do you take the step, make the commitment, invest the time, money and emotion into taking your small business from a group of unmanaged individual PC’s and notebooks to a LAN with all the costs, intricacies, extra hardware, consulting and process changes that it requires?

For many small business owners this is a dilemma that they are facing. With this dilemma comes the black hole of Internet Security. My business is too small or I am not ready for a server, but my business is too big to continue installing consumer security suites that can’t be monitored or managed centrally. I need the management and visibility that internet security suites built for larger businesses that run a server offer, but I don’t have a server and I am not going to invest in a server because I’m not ready.

In the past this dilemma would mean a small business would stick with the consumer version, suffering the increased cost of management of individual PCs, the increased risk of infection if a machine was out of date and unable to be monitored and the loss of performance sometimes experienced because of the range of “consumer” oriented features not relevant to the small business that are installed by default.

Over 70% of Small Businesses in Asia Pacific have less than 10 employees and the adoption rate of servers is behind the rest of the world. What this means is that there are a huge number of businesses in this region that are falling into this divide and are either at risk to infection or of wasting profit making hours on managing their internet security.

On top of this whether a small business has a server, or not, they generally don’t have IT staff so the security solution they deploy needs to be basic but effective. They need the strength of an enterprise solution with the complexity of a tap. Turn it on you get water, the same water that everyone else gets. No washers to fix, no rivets to fasten, no pipes to weld. Trend Micro has recently launched another offering in its Worry-free Business Security range for small business. Worry-Free Business Security Hosted Beta is now available for free usage. As a new offering Trend Micro have made the solution available for all customers to trial until March 2009. This solution protects multiple PCs from viruses, spyware, and other web. It installs seamlessly on PCs and doesn’t require a server, all PC’s report back to a central web based console that allows the small business owner to monitor the status of all machines via a simple traffic light dashboard. This safer, smarter, and simpler security requires no configuration and stops web threats before they can reach your business or can slow PCs. Trend Micro™ continually updates and maintains this small business solution for you.

Benefits include:· Sets up easily with no configuration, extra software/hardware, or server component · Protects from latest threats because Trend Micro’s service update security for you· Saves time view security status for multiple PCs from anywhere, anytime with only a Web browser and Internet connection For more details please visit http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/sb/worry-free-business-security-hosted/index.html