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SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings, the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Trend Micro, today announced that the latter has earned a 'Recommend' rating for its over-time protection rating and socially-engineered malware blocking score in the Q3 2010 NSS Labs Consumer Anti-Malware Products Group Test Report. While the average time for a security vendor to block a malicious site was 13.5 hours, Trend Micro had the fastest time, blocking malicious sites in just over three hours. Not sponsored or funded by any security vendor, the NSS Labs test emulated the experiences of average users and focused on threats active on the Internet gathered from the company's extensive intelligence network.
"NSS Labs has been leading the way in new testing standards,” commented Lee Bristow, Product Manager at SecureData for trend Micro products. “The live testing methodology used by NSS Labs provides accurate real-world results of product effectiveness on blocking socially engineered malware at the source. This testing methodology aligns with Trend Micro's mission of going beyond simple detection rates and focusing on protecting the customer from 'real world' threats by blocking most exploits at their source, the Internet."
This year, the Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security product, the company's consumer Internet security solution, was rated the best at protecting against Web-based socially engineered malware. Titanium achieved a malware over-time prevention rating of 90.1%, blocking 79% on download, and caught 76.4% of zero hour blocks, the percent of threats blocked upon first exposure to the endpoint. Its average time to block was just over three hours, compared to the overall average of 13.5 hours. Time to block is the average time after the first exposure for security vendors to provide a block to new threats.
"Trend Micro Titanium offers the best protection against Web malware, and has minimal impact on performance," continued Bristow. "The researchers found that this product is well ahead of most of the competition in protecting against Web-based socially engineered malware."
Trend Micro blocks threats at their source, keeping threats off the computer, thus improving the performance of the machine. With an impact score of 0.21, Trend Micro had the lowest impact score of the most effective products in the NSS Labs 'Recommended' category.
Trend Micro Titanium is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network cloud infrastructure. Through the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro scans, filters and correlates more than 50 billion e-mails, Web sites and files every single day, and then leverages that data to rapidly identify and respond to emerging threats, and improve the existing response to known threats.
“As Trend Micro continues to extend the delivery of security from the cloud, customers of Trend's products continue to benefit in real-time, rather than having to wait for the next update, as the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network improves its security response,” concluded Bristow. “Every new Trend Micro customer joins millions of other Trend Micro customers to help create better and better security to keep out the bad guys in real-time.”
For further information, please contact Lee Bristow at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail leeb@securedata.co.za.
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Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet content security, focuses on securing the exchange of digital information for businesses and consumers. A pioneer and industry vanguard, Trend Micro is advancing integrated threat management technology to protect operational continuity, personal information, and property from malware, spam, data leaks and the latest Web threats. Trend Micro's flexible solutions, available in multiple form factors, are supported 24/7 by threat intelligence experts around the globe. Many of these solutions are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a next generation cloud-client content security infrastructure designed to protect customers from Web threats.
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za.
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