Johannesburg, 13 Mar 2007
SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the southern African distributor for Trend Micro security software, today announced the latter's latest versions of its messaging security products, InterScan Messaging Security Suite and InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, and also a new hosted service for enterprise customers, InterScan Messaging Hosted Security.
InterScan Messaging Security solutions are integral to the Trend Micro enterprise protection strategy, providing organisations comprehensive gateway e-mail security.
E-mail has become one of the primary means of business communication and securing the messaging infrastructure from attack is crucial. E-mail attacks have also increased in sophistication so that corporate e-mail can now be endangered by internal and external messaging threats including spam, phishing, viruses, spyware and other malware as well as bulk e-mail attacks and threats to data security.
Threats are also being combined, creating blended threats that span messaging and Web-based protocols. This multitude of e-mail threats can increase risks and costs in organisations.
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions integrate anti-spam and anti-phishing with anti-virus and anti-spyware. Innovative techniques include two patent-pending technologies, customer-specific reputation services and image spam detection, to help keep customers safe as threats evolve. Additionally, predictive techniques such as zero-day protection, advanced heuristics and behaviour analysis block targeted attacks. This comprehensive e-mail protection also provides flexible content filtering to help enforce compliance and to prevent data leakage. With a highly scalable platform and centralised management for easy administration, the solution blocks standalone, blended-threat, and targeted attacks at the gateway.
Unlike other vendor solutions, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions include three distinct anti-spam techniques integrated into one solution. The first two techniques, Network Reputation Services and IP Profiler, stop most threats at the connection layer before they even reach the gateway, securing the network and preserving bandwidth, storage and other resources. The anti-spam composite engine catches any remaining threats before they reach the inbox.
Network Reputation Services provides the initial line of defence by blocking e-mails from known spam sources. Network Reputation Services verifies IP addresses of incoming e-mail against the world's largest reputation database and applies a dynamic reputation service to identify new spam and phishing sources, including zombies and botnets as they first emerge. IP Profiler is the second spam technique and prevents more threats from entering the network with customer-specific reputation services and a firewall to block directory harvest attacks and bounced mail attacks. The robust composite engine provides the final level of protection, filtering spam and phishing e-mails at the gateway through a combination of anti-spam technologies, including image spam detection.
The anti-spam engine also applies embedded URL reputation to block e-mails with links to malicious Web sites.
"Spam has become a major threat to organisations worldwide and traditional solutions are no longer sufficient or cost-effective," commented Matt Anderson, an analyst at Radicati Group.
"Trend Micro has evolved its anti-spam technology with an integrated, multi-tier approach including its reputation services which block spam before it enters the gateway and impacts the network."
Offering consistent protection across the different appliance, software and hosted service form-factors, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions are designed to provide enterprise-level gateway e-mail security that allows organisations to pick a solution based on their infrastructure requirements, without sacrificing either level of protection or implementation flexibility.
"Trend Micro remains a leader in gateway e-mail security because we keep sight of product and technology innovation - everything from the patent pending technology of IP Profiler to image spam detection to catering to the form-factor preferences of our broad customer base," added Max Cheng, general manager Trend Micro enterprise business operations. "With the latest release of our InterScan Messaging Security solutions, Trend Micro is providing its best-of-breed e-mail security in software, appliance and hosted service."
The InterScan Messaging Security solutions are a key messaging security component of Trend Micro's Enterprise Protection Strategy, which is the most comprehensive and effective security solution framework available for today's enterprise. This framework comprises products that secure the network at all entry points from the gateway to the desktop.
For further information, please contact Wayne Biehn at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail wayneb@securedata.co.za.
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