Trend Micro updates web gateway security

CUPERTINO, USA: Trend Micro Incorporated, a player in cloud security, has announced the latest release of the company’s web gateway solution, which delivers better visibility and control over the growing use of cloud-based applications such as instant messaging, peer-to-peer, video and audio applications, and web mail.

Features:

Application Control: This provides greater visibility into and control over an organization’s Internet usage. It automates the discovery and bandwidth usage of over 420 Internet-based protocols and the thousands of client applications that leverage them. Administrators can understand which users’ traffic needs to be controlled per application type and then create rules to enforce those policies. Unlike most web gateway products which can only apply policies to the traffic they can proxy, Interscan Web Security provides total visibility across all ports and many more protocols.

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HTTP Inspection: This provides more granular control to protect against  emerging web threats by allowing administrators to identify behavior and filter web traffic according to any characteristic of the HTTP protocol. Administrators can leverage supplied policy templates to control things like:

        whether users can post content to social networking sites;

        whether users can send specific attachment types in public webmail applications; and

        which browsers/versions can be used to access the Internet.

In addition, administrators can easily capture sample traffic from within the product and create custom filters to enforce any policy they might need.

URL Filtering: In addition to the Allow, Block, Monitor, and Warn actions available for URL Filtering policies, several enhancements are included in the 5.5 release, including:

Time-based Quotas: This allows administrators to define the total allowable browsing time within work/leisure hours that users can visit specific sites or categories of sites. Temporary time extensions can be granted as needed.

Password Override: This allows administrator-defined users to override the block action by typing a password in their browser to allow one-time access.

John Maddison, GM of data center security, Trend Micro said “Employee-use of cloud-based Web 2.0 applications is standard for many organizations and, as a result, it exposes their organization to cybercriminals attempting to gain access to sensitive data. Trend Micro InterScan Web Security gives organizations visibility into the Internet-based applications employees use and also secures that usage by blocking unwanted or unsafe content at the network perimeter. It’s powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure, which means customers are getting the superior protection that comes from a cloud-client innovation which combines sophisticated cloud-based reputation technology, feedback loops, and the expertise of TrendLabsSM  researchers to deliver real-time protection from emerging threats.”