Trend Micro Reveals Major Enhancements to Gateway Messaging Security and Introduces New InterScan Messaging Hosted Service

New Patent-Pending Technologies and Product Enhancements Provide Protection to Corporate Email as Messaging Threats Evolve 


CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 26  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE:4704)(NASDAQ:TMIC), a leader in network antivirus and content security, today announced the latest versions of its messaging security products, InterScan Messaging Security Suite and InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, and also a new hosted service for enterprise customers, InterScan Messaging Hosted Security. InterScan Messaging Security solutions are integral to the Trend Micro Enterprise protection strategy, providing organizations comprehensive gateway email security.

Email has become one of the primary means of business communication and securing the messaging infrastructure from attack is crucial. Email attacks have also increased in sophistication so that corporate email can now be endangered by internal and external messaging threats including spam, phishing, viruses, spyware, and other malware as well as bulk email attacks and threats to data security. Threats are also being combined, creating blended threats that span messaging and Web-based protocols. This multitude of email threats can increase risks and costs in organizations.

Trend Micro(TM) InterScan Messaging Security solutions integrate anti-spam and anti-phishing with antivirus and anti-spyware. Innovative techniques include two patent-pending technologies, customer-specific reputation services and image spam detection, to help keep customers safe as threats evolve. Additionally, predictive techniques such as zero-day protection, advanced heuristics, and behavior analysis block targeted attacks. This comprehensive email protection also provides flexible content filtering to help enforce compliance and to prevent data leakage. With a highly scalable platform and centralized management for easy administration, the solution blocks standalone, blended-threat, and targeted attacks at the gateway.

Unlike other vendor solutions, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions include three distinct anti-spam techniques integrated into one solution. The first two techniques, Network Reputation Services and IP Profiler, stop most threats at the connection layer before they even reach the gateway, securing the network and preserving bandwidth, storage, and other resources. The anti-spam composite engine catches any remaining threats before they reach the inbox.

Network Reputation Services provides the initial line of defense by blocking emails from known spam sources. Network Reputation Services verifies IP addresses of incoming email against the world's largest reputation database and applies a dynamic reputation service to identify new spam and phishing sources, including zombies and botnets as they first emerge. IP Profiler is the second spam technique and prevents more threats from entering the network with customer-specific reputation services and a firewall to block directory harvest attacks and bounced mail attacks. The robust composite engine provides the final level of protection, filtering spam and phishing emails at the gateway through a combination of anti-spam technologies, including image spam detection. The anti-spam engine also applies embedded URL reputation to block emails with links to malicious Websites.

"Spam has become a major threat to organizations worldwide and traditional solutions are no longer sufficient or cost effective, said Matt Anderson, an analyst at Radicati Group. "Trend Micro has evolved its anti-spam technology with an integrated, multi-tier approach including its reputation services which block spam before it enters the gateway and impacts the network."

Offering consistent protection across the different appliance, software, and hosted service form-factors, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions are designed to provide enterprise-level gateway email security that allows organizations to pick a solution based on their infrastructure requirements, without sacrificing either level of protection or implementation flexibility.

"Trend Micro remains a leader in gateway email security because we keep sight of product and technology innovation -- everything from the patent pending technology of IP Profiler to image spam detection to catering to the form-factor preferences of our broad customer base," said Max Cheng, general manager Trend Micro enterprise business operations. "With the latest release of our InterScan Messaging Security solutions, Trend Micro is providing its best-of-breed email security in software, appliance and hosted service."

The InterScan Messaging Security solutions are a key messaging security component of Trend Micro's Enterprise Protection Strategy, which is the most comprehensive and effective security solution framework available for today's enterprise. This framework comprises products that secure the network at all entry points from the gateway to the desktop.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing and availability for Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security solutions in North America are as follows:

  *InterScan Messaging Security Suite will be available in Q2 2007 with an
   SRP of $15.88/user for 2001 users.
  *InterScan Messaging Security Appliance will be available in Q2 2007 with
   an SRP starting at $20,815.
  *InterScan Messaging Hosted Security will be available in April 2007 with
   an SRP of $13.50/user for 2001 users.



For further information regarding InterScan Messaging Security solutions, please visit http://messagingsecurity.trendmicro.com/pr/tm/enus/enterprise/ms/products.aspx

About Trend Micro Incorporated

Trend Micro Incorporated is a pioneer in secure content and threat management. Founded in 1988, Trend Micro provides individuals and organizations of all sizes with award-winning security software, hardware and services. With headquarters in Tokyo and operations in more than 30 countries, Trend Micro solutions are sold through corporate and value-added resellers and service providers worldwide. For additional information and evaluation copies of Trend Micro products and services, visit our Web site at http://www.trendmicro.com/ .

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