Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, announced today new products, services, and solutions to help enterprises minimize the time to protect against new and unknown Web threats.  Given the changing threat landscape, time has become the critical element for enterprises in preventing malware and insider threats from damaging their employee productivity, customer, supplier and partner relationships, and corporate reputation.
 
Trend Micro Enterprise Security delivers solutions, products and capabilities that combine powerful real-time threat protection technologies in the cloud and a lightweight on-premise architecture to deliver immediate and automatic protection from new and unknown threats, wherever they attack.  Trend Micro, faced with the escalation of a faster, more complex Web threat landscape, is optimizing its current enterprise security portfolio, as well as creating new solutions, that have a higher level of automated, real-time threat responses. The company does this by:
 
Building upon the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network Powered by Smart Protection Network, a next-generation cloud-client content security infrastructure designed to protect customers from Web threats no matter how or where they occur, combined with the company’s patent-pending “in-the-cloud” technologies, Trend Micro Enterprise Security delivers immediate protection that improves automatically, closing the vulnerability window before damage is done and giving customers more time to proactively manage security across their enterprise.

Real-time threat protection technologies and a lightweight client architecture enables Trend Micro Enterprise Security to develop comprehensive, multi-layered security and proactive security management that speeds threat response and reduces the need for time-consuming security updates. (See full press release on the Smart Protection Network: http://trendmicro.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=642)

Updating its gateway appliance strategy with a move towards software virtual appliances Trend Micro is introducing two new software virtual appliances in order to address an increased market demand for security solutions that reduce costs, increase IT flexibility, speed up performance, simplify deployment and upgrades, improve disaster recovery and promote business continuity. These software appliances combine a hardened operating system and application stack that can run optimally on industry standard “bare-metal” hardware or alternatively in a virtual machine. These products are as follows:
 
InterScan Web Security Software Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) will deliver comprehensive, timely protection against Web-based threats such as spyware and bots.  By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web threat protection as an additional layer of defense, IWSVA includes real-time Web reputation, content scanning and URL filtering capabilities to secure organizations against today’s latest Web threats.
 
InterScan Messaging Security Software Virtual Appliance (IMSVA) will deliver comprehensive protection against email-based threats such as spam, viruses, malware and botnets, today’s most rapidly growing source of spam.  By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Email Reputation Service, up to 80 percent of spam can be dropped at the connection level, freeing up bandwidth and storage. Also incorporated within IMSVA is Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web Reputation which can block access to malicious Web sites in real time.