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 key advances in its gateway messaging security offerings, introducing a SMTP e-mail gateway solution that provides enhanced multi-layered protection against viruses, worms, spam, phishing and other security threats.
The solution consists of three tightly integrated components: an enhanced version of InterScan Messaging Security Suite, Trend Micro Spam Prevention Solution, and Trend Micro Network Reputation Services. Together, they form a stalwart defence against a variety of threats, however many enhancements made to this integrated solution involve stronger anti-spam protection and greater support for messaging compliance. These enhancements are designed to confront growing security problems, such as spam-enabled phishing attacks.
According to research by Trend Micro, phishing is jeopardising both personal and corporate information at an alarming rate. For example, 21% of respondents who had fallen victim to a phishing attack at work reported that their corporate data had been compromised. As the volume of spam continues to rise - in 2004, the ITU reported that 80% of global email was considered spam - businesses must consider tackling these security problems upstream rather than rely solely on content filtering products.
Trend Micro's e-mail and messaging security solution addresses this need while providing an added benefit of offloading storage and processing overhead from the IT infrastructure. The three solution offerings include:
* InterScan Messaging Security Suite (IMSS). Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite provides award-winning anti-virus technology, anti-spyware protection, messaging compliance, content filtering and an optional spam prevention solution to mitigate mixed-threat attacks at the Internet messaging gateway. This integrated protection provides enterprise organisations with a single line of defence against a variety of security threats.
* Trend Micro Spam Prevention Solution (SPS), which easily integrates with IMSS at the messaging gateway, features a composite anti-spam engine that enables multilingual spam detection and signature- and heuristics-based protection.
* Network Reputation Services (NRS) block spam at its source, before it enters the network environment. The service leverages a reputation database of 1.6 billion suspect IP addresses to block unwarranted e-mails. NRS drops a significant volume of spam at the connection level, before it reaches the gateway for content inspection. While NRS enables businesses to rely on more than just content filtering, it also offloads storage and processing power typically required for filtering unwanted e-mail.
All three offerings can be used together or as standalone offerings that are compatible with existing security systems, making this solution extremely flexible for businesses to incorporate.
"Spam has evolved from being merely an undesired content issue to a more serious network problem, which in turn impacts business operations and end-user security," commented Dave Rand, chief technologist of Trend Micro Internet Content Security. "This enhanced SMTP e-mail gateway security ensures message compliance and minimises the risks of spam-enabled phishing attacks and other e-mail-borne threats."
For further information, please contact Dean Brazier at telephone +27 11 257 8600; fax +27 11 257 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 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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