SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the southern African distributor for Trend Micro security software, today announced that the latter has been acknowledged in a new report by independent industry analyst firm, Forrester Research, as a market leader in enterprise anti-spyware solutions, validating the company's momentum and capabilities in one of the security industry's fastest-growing markets.
The "Forrester First Wave: Enterprise Antispyware, Q1 2006" report, released 6 January 2006, is based on customer feedback, product demonstrations, and vendor surveys. It evaluates eight anti-spyware vendors against more than 100 criteria, including current offerings, market presence, investment in anti-spyware solution development, and long-term product and corporate strategy.
The report names Trend Micro as a leader among the field. Trend Micro receives the highest score in product and corporate strategy. It states: "Trend Micro is delivering what enterprise customers want - an option for either a standalone or an integrated anti-spyware solution." (Trend Micro Offers Large Enterprises Strong Standalone Enterprise Antispyware, Forrester Research, Inc, January 2006).
The report goes on to say that going forward: "Trend Micro will benefit from their multiple form-factor anti-spyware products, including standalone, suite, and gateway solutions."
"The central deployment and management capabilities of Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition make it quick and easy to install and simple to manage," commented Art DeKneef, owner of Avanti Computers and a customer of Trend Micro's standalone anti-spyware solution.
"Its effective reporting capabilities deliver the information we need, and most importantly, the solution finds and eliminates spyware threats - Trend Micro solutions do the job."
The Forrester report added that Trend Micro's form-factor flexibility, combined with Trend Micro Control Manager - the company's centralised management solution - is a significant differentiation point in the marketplace and is a fundamental reason why the analyst firm issued a high rating of the company's strategic direction. It states: "As a dedicated security vendor, Trend Micro is able to dedicate significant resources to its anti-spyware product. The company's offerings are designed for the enterprise, scaling to a virtually limitless number of nodes."
"Trend Micro is extremely pleased to be recognised as a leading vendor in enterprise anti-spyware," added Max Cheng, Executive VP and General Manager of Trend Micro's Enterprise business. "This acknowledgement shows that we are excelling in more than just anti-virus protection. We have a commitment to maintain an unwavering focus on developing leading anti-spyware solutions as well. Forrester's report provides justification that our efforts are being acknowledged positively by customers and the marketplace as a whole."
Cheng added that the acknowledgement of Trend Micro as a market leader comes at a time when the anti-spyware market is growing significantly. According to a report from IDC, the anti-spyware market is projected to grow 64% year-over-year in 2006.
"Spyware is a growing threat, and through the combination of our standalone and integrated solutions, both at the gateway and at the desktop, Trend Micro is in a unique position to protect our enterprise customers from malware threats now and in the future," concluded Cheng.
For further information, please contact Dean Brazier at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail deanb@securedata.co.za.
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Trend Micro, Inc is a leader in network anti-virus and Internet content security software and services. The Tokyo-based corporation has business units worldwide. Trend Micro products are sold through corporate and value-added resellers.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion prevention software and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies and the Southern African distributor for US-based AirDefense, Application Security, eEye, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense.
For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment.
For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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