SecureData Security, 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 unique malicious site blocking score in the Q2 2010 NSS Labs Endpoint Protection Products Group Test Report covering socially-engineered malware.
While the average security vendor took days to block a malicious Web site, Trend Micro had the fastest time, taking only a matter of 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.
This is the second consecutive year that the Trend product has been rated as number one. This year there were 10 vendors whose products were tested in this fashion.
“For the last two years, NSS Labs has been an instrumental leader in establishing a new scientific baseline of endpoint protection effectiveness based on threat detection rates and time-to-block,” commented Lee Bristow, Product Manager at SecureData for Trend Micro products.
“The purpose of NSS Labs testing standards is to determine how well security products protect users from socially-engineered malware. This objective strongly aligns with Trend Micro's mission of going beyond simple detection rates and focusing on protecting the customer from 'real-world' threats, and the speed and aggressiveness with which cyber criminals are moving.”
This year, the Trend Micro OfficeScan product, the company's enterprise endpoint solution, was rated the best at protecting against socially-engineered malware. OfficeScan achieved an over-time protection rating of 95.2%, a unique malicious site blocking score of 86%, and caught 60.6% of zero-hour blocks, the percent of threats blocked upon first exposure to the endpoint.
Its average time-to-block was less than five hours, compared to the overall average of nearly two days (45.8 hours.). Time-to-block is the average time after the first exposure for security vendors to provide a block to new threats.
“Trend Micro Office Scan led the competition in protecting against Web-based socially-engineered malware,” continued Bristow. This malware, which is sourced on the Internet, was tested against each solution to see if they could block the threat at its source or during download (caught initially on download), or when the threat executed on the machine (caught subsequently on execution). Fresh malware was sourced during the nine days the test ran and introduced every eight hours to the test machines.
“The researchers at NSS Labs also found the Trend product easy to use and its malware protection consistently at an extremely high standard throughout their testing process.”
Trend Micro OfficeScan is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure. Through the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro scans, filters and correlates more than 45 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 extends its business into security from the cloud, customers will 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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The NSS Labs Q2 2010 Endpoint Protection Products Group Test Report
Designed to address the challenges faced by IT professionals in selecting and managing security products, NSS Labs reports offer unbiased, actionable information based on actual test results. Using its real-world test methodology, NSS Labs evaluated 10 leading endpoint protection products to determine their protection against Web-based socially-engineered malware. Each product earned a rating of either “Recommend,” “Neutral,” or “Caution” based on its composite test results. Only the top technical products earn a Recommend rating, regardless of their market share, brand recognition, or the company's size.
NSS Labs, Inc
NSS Labs, Inc is the world's leading independent information security research and testing organisation. Its expert analyses provide information technology professionals with the unbiased data they need to select the right product for their organisations. Pioneering intrusion detection and prevention system testing with the publication of the first such test criteria in 1991, NSS Labs also evaluates firewall, unified threat management, anti-malware, encryption, Web application firewall, and other technologies on a regular basis. The firm's real-world test methodology is the only one to assess security products against live Internet threats. As such, NSS Labs tests are considered the most aggressive in the industry and its recommendations are highly coveted. Founded in 1991, the company has offices in Carlsbad, California and Austin, Texas. For more information, visit http://www.nsslabs.com.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated, 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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