SecureData Security, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the sole sub-Saharan distributor for Trend Micro, today announced that the latter's Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, the realisation of Trend Micro's vision and commitment to delivering lighter and faster protection from the cloud, is marking its 16-month anniversary with notable milestone numbers and a look at how the company has successfully integrated the technology across its solution portfolio.
Security made smarter: By the numbers
Between Q3 2008 and Q2 2009, Trend Micro Smart Protection Network achieved unprecedented growth. The chart below illustrates, on a daily average, how many queries users around the world send to the Smart Protection Network, and how many threats it blocks.
Security made evident: Third-party validation
Independent, third-party testers have been validating the effectiveness of Trend Micro's products and solutions powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. Whether in sponsored or non-sponsored tests, Trend Micro is consistently taking the lead.
Security that fits: Products powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network
For years, Trend Micro recognised that the malware landscape would evolve from virus outbreaks to stealthy, hidden malware attacks designed by cyber-criminals to steal personal and proprietary business data. Trend Micro products are specifically designed to guard against the latest threats victimising consumers, small businesses and enterprises.
Security that's better: A new approach was needed
According to AV-Test.org, over 1 million new malware are generated each month. Trend Micro understood that the traditional way of blocking malware - using signature files and pattern downloads - would not only over-burden endpoints, but would be too slow to counter the speed in which cyber-criminals are moving, especially since most of these threats are now coming from the Internet.
With a changing threat landscape, a new security approach was essential. Far ahead of its competitors, Trend Micro has been developing cutting-edge technologies designed to stop threats at their source - the Internet - while also embedding multi-layered protections more deeply into the network.
"With the Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro created a new way of fighting online threats that's faster and smarter than the conventional approaches the security industry has been promoting," commented Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro.
"The value Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure provides to our customers is very simple: Minimise the risk and impact of digital threats at the lowest possible impact to their business functions and systems performance. During the past year and a half, we've been executing on this vision, expanding the Smart Protection Network beyond just a new piece of technology, but a solid foundation upon which we build innovative products that deliver protection from the cloud."
Trend Micro Smart Protection Network combines in-the-cloud technologies and TrendLabs, its global network of threat intelligence and research centres, with lighter-weight, client-based methods to ensure customers have immediate access to the latest and strongest protection wherever and however they connect - from home, on or off the corporate network, or on the go.
Reputation technology is one of the key components of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. The company first introduced e-mail reputation services in 2005; Web reputation in 2006; and finally, file reputation in 2008. Through its patent-pending correlation technology, Trend Micro uses behaviour analysis to correlate these cloud-based reputation databases to identify malicious threats.
Another component of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network is integrated feedback loops that provide continuous communication between Trend Micro products, as well as TrendLabs in a two-way update stream. Each new threat identified via a single customer's routine reputation check, for example, automatically updates all of Trend Micro's threat databases around the world, blocking any subsequent customer encounters of a given threat. By continuously processing the threat intelligence gathered through its extensive global network of honey pots, customers and partners, Trend Micro delivers automatic, real-time protection against the latest threats and provides "better together" security, much like an automated neighbourhood watch that involves the community in protection of others.
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 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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