Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in Internet content security, has announced new products, services, and solutions to help enterprises minimise the time to protect against new and unknown web threats.
“Given the changing threat landscape, time has become the critical element for enterprises in preventing malware and insider threats from damaging their employee productivity, customer, supplier and partner relationships, and corporate reputation,” the company said.
Trend Micro is introducing two new software virtual appliances in order to address an increased market demand for security solutions that reduce costs, increase IT flexibility, speed up performance, simplify deployment and upgrades, improve disaster recovery and promote business continuity. These software appliances combine a hardened operating system and application stack that can run optimally on industry standard “bare-metal” hardware or alternatively in a virtual machine. These products are:
InterScan Web Security Software Virtual Appliance (IWSVA), designed to deliver comprehensive, timely protection against Web-based threats such as spyware and bots.  By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web threat protection as an additional layer of defense, IWSVA includes real-time Web reputation, content scanning and URL filtering capabilities to secure organisations against today’s latest Web threats.
InterScan Messaging Security Software Virtual Appliance (IMSVA), aimed at delivering comprehensive protection against email-based threats such as spam, viruses, malware and botnets, today’s most rapidly growing source of spam.  By incorporating Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Email Reputation Service, up to 80 per cent of spam can be dropped at the connection level, freeing up bandwidth and storage. Also incorporated within IMSVA is Trend Micro’s in-the-cloud Web Reputation which can block access to malicious Web sites in real time.
In addition, Trend Micro is introducing a Software Virtual Appliance Certification Programme that is designed to ensure compatibility between Trend Micro software virtual appliance solutions and appliance hardware platform providers (IHVs).