The Hindu Business Line : Trend Micro snare for Web threats

Bangalore May 13 Trend Micro is now advocating Total Web Threat Protection — a multi-layered approach to dealing with evolving multi-component Web threats that take advantage of the interactive nature of the Internet.

Most URL-filtering and content-inspection solutions only protect reactively against known threats. To effectively combat Web threats, new Web site-reputation-based solutions working in tandem with URL filtering are needed.

"When employees of a business uses the Web, whether for company research, to surf or socialise, they are automatically increasing the security risk to their organisation and corporate managers need tools to better understand and make decisions about that risk," said Ms Eva Chen, CEO, Trend Micro, in a release issued by the company.

"The ability to track the credibility and reputation of a site before entering it is like running a credit check prior to entering into a business agreement. With such insidious and often targeted attacks, a normally trustworthy site could unwittingly become hijacked by malicious code. Total Web Threat Protection provides security readings and restrictions that lessen the risk of confidential information leakage and identity loss, and damage to company image as a result of Web-based attacks."

This is a combination of Web reputation, URL filtering, antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-spam.

The Web reputation functionality tracks the credibility of Web domains and extends and applies to the Web threats Trend Micro's already-existing Network Reputation Services, which protects over 78 million email accounts on a global basis.

Trend Micro OfficeScan 8.0 (currently in beta) will be the first corporate solution to have the new Web reputation technology blended into its functionality. TrendProtect is another Web threat reputation service that continuously protects consumers and SOHO's against unwanted Web content.

Trend Micro maps over 300 million domains and over 2 billion hits daily.