Trend Micro, a leader in antivirus and Internet content security, today announced the availability of Trend Micro™ Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition™, the latest in its range of anti-spyware products incorporating technologies gained through its acquisition of InterMute, Inc., in May of this year.
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition is the third product in Trend Micro’s new standalone anti-spyware solution set for desktops. Targeted at mid-sized to larger business organizations, the product supports Trend Micro’s multi-layered approach to protecting enterprise networks. Its extensive management tools and proactive technology detect spyware, protect end users from spyware, and clean up and restore systems if they get infected.
Clients and servers are shielded by a defense system that actively monitors file downloads and uses a highly efficient spyware database and heuristic rule set to scan and clean desktops, laptops and servers, without significant processing overhead. Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition is the only product that includes Trend Micro CWShredder™, industry-acclaimed technology that eradicates spyware programs like CoolWebSearch and its variants – programs that are extremely difficult to remove.
“Spyware is incredibly costly and detrimental, slowing machines, consuming bandwidth, and stealing sensitive information from end user systems,” said Samir Kirouani, technical manager, Trend Micro Middle East. “Currently, employees in the Middle East may be aware of the threat, but their knowledge is usually limited, enunciating the need for greater proactive anti-Spyware protection.”
The new product’s enterprise-class management enables easy deployment and administration across large organizations, particularly via the centralized management capabilities of Trend Micro Control Manager™. Through a Web-based console, all machines on the network can be managed from one enterprise server.
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition can also discover client machines automatically and transparently push agents to desktops without the need for end-user intervention. Compatible with all major enterprise desktop security products, it offers a flexible, complementary layer of protection regardless of the existence of other security products on the desktops.
The launch of Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition comes at a time when end users are expressing a desire for greater education on security threats and collaboration with IT departments. According to a recent Trend Micro study of corporate end users, 53 percent of respondents said they wanted greater education from IT to better understand the threat of spyware. In the same study, end users said viruses and spyware caused the most concern among various security threats.
“Middle Eastern security and business strategies must be unified as one initiative to sustain business continuity corporate data, and privacy,” Kirouani added. “A multi-layered security infrastructure, which secures the entire network environment, must include enterprise-level anti-Spyware that is compatible with other major solutions.
