Worry-Free security for SMBs

CALIFORNIA, USA: Trend Micro Incorporated , a global leader in Internet content security, has announced a major new release of the company's Worry-Free Security solutions that tackles the changing needs of small businesses and the evolving Web threat landscape they face.

Worry-Free Business Security 5.0, the next generation of the flagship Trend Micro Worry-Free Security that was first introduced to the small business market over 4 years ago.

Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 includes Trend Micro Web threat protection technology, which provides a multi-layered defense against multiple Web threats that take advantage of the interactive nature of the Internet. Web threat protection uses Trend Micro's Web reputation database that contains the threat experiences of all our customers worldwide -- from consumers to enterprises. Each attack on an individual PC adds to the Trend Micro database and understanding of Web site reputation, malware behaviour, and spam sources. (Trend Micro scans about 3-4 billion Web sites and prevents 8-10 million customer exposures to infected sites on a daily basis.) Subsequent users are then protected from these threats and their sources.

With this type of comprehensive, collaborative, "Neighborhood Watch" type of real-time protection that stops threats (including spam) before they can enter into a network, growing businesses are able to keep their business assets safe, thereby protecting their reputation.

Smarter

Traditional antivirus solutions, because of their deployed location within a network and the conventional threat-detection method used, are reactive and often cause computer and network performance slowdowns. Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 includes Trend Micro's hosted technology, such as Web threat protection and hosted solutions such as InterScan Messaging Hosted Security (which integrates anti-spam, anti-phishing, antivirus and anti-spyware) that do their work and block threats "in the cloud," taking up less bandwidth space and requiring no configuration. Meantime, Trend Micro software on the computer monitors the behavior of applications (versus relying purely upon signature pattern files) for suspicious activity. This, in combination with hosted technology, is more effective at stopping new Web threats and consumes fewer resources.

Simpler

Its also easy to use and deploy, Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 can be managed by channel resellers via a single console, Worry-Free Remote Manager. This can remove administrative burden for solution partners' direct customers of Worry-Free Business Security 5.0. Worry-Free Business Security also automatically increases security for out-of-office employees.