Trend Micro Multi-Layered Products and Technologies Combat World's Number-One Web Threat - Spyware - Across Nearly 100-Million C
November 20 2006 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Trend Micro(TM) Anti-Spyware Solutions Protect Nearly 100-Million
Seats Worldwide; Trend Micro Year-Over-Year Anti-Spyware Product
Revenue Growth Estimated at Over 250 Percent*; Innovative
Web-Threat Protection Technology Drives the Momentum CUPERTINO,
Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated
(NASDAQ:TMIC)(TSE:4704), a leader in network antivirus and Internet
content security software and services, today announced that its
3-year investment in a portfolio of products addressing the
number-one web threat today -- spyware -- is being adopted by
customers worldwide and paying dividends among channel partners.
IDC estimates that between 2004 and 2005 Trend Micro's worldwide
anti-spyware revenue increased by 273.1 percent, the highest growth
rate among the top three revenue leaders in anti-spyware, and
greater than the overall combined anti-spyware market growth of
151.7 percent*. Trend Micro's anti-spyware solutions are currently
protecting half a million customers at 91.5 million seats from
spyware, among other web threats. Users Face Web-Threat "Perfect
Storm" A rising tide of malicious web pages are now infecting
computers with spyware and other threats while users surf the web,
thereby compromising machines, data and identities silently,
without any user interaction. Trends like social networking, mobile
computing, and "googling" have combined with a sharp rise in the
purposeful planting of spyware and other web threats on the
Internet to create a perfect storm of criminal activity on the web.
Even if the initial infection is e-mail based, Trend Micro(TM)
researchers are finding that such infections will then download
additional components from the web. Spyware is just one major class
of web threat being used in a global underground economy to make
money through identity theft, extortion and more. Other web threats
include phishing attacks, local-language targeted attacks,
botnet-driven web denial-of-service attacks, drive-by downloads and
network and web viruses. The company expects web infections will
surpass e-mail infections as the number one infection vector
overall by 2008. "Web-traffic-borne menaces like spyware are
creating an all-time high concern among organizations," commented
Brian Burke, research manager at IDC. "Web-security solutions, such
as those from Trend Micro, that enhance and are integrated with
traditional antivirus deployments at the gateway, client, server
and desktop will become invaluable against web-based malware
attacks." Multi-layered, Multi-Product, Multi-Form-Factor Approach
Protects Best In 2003 Trend Micro introduced its first software
security product containing anti-spyware, PC-cillin(TM) Internet
Security 2004, followed quickly by products integrating
anti-spyware for the corporate desktop (OfficeScan(TM)) and the
gateway (InterScan(TM) Web Security Suite). As a gateway leader
offering an award-winning cross-product and consistent Enterprise
Protection Strategy, Trend Micro always espoused a multi-layered
approach for protection and remediation, and that was true for
combating web threats like spyware, whether at the gateway or the
desktop. Since then Trend Micro has introduced gateway web threat
protection in three form factors -- software, hardware appliance,
and hosted service -- for both enterprises and SMB businesses.
These offerings are supplemented by popular Damage Cleanup Services
built into the products. The company through its acquisition of
anti-spyware leader InterMute in May 2005 offers channel partners
and customers a choice of standalone or integrated anti-spyware
products in all three segments the company serves -- consumer, SMB,
and enterprise. Trend Micro's multi-layered solutions for business
can be centrally managed through a single web-based console, Trend
Micro(TM) Control Manager(TM). Technology Innovation Drives Trend
Micro Momentum With the acquisition of InterMute, existing Trend
Micro anti-spyware researchers collaborated with top-shelf
engineering talent at the newly established Trend Micro office in
Braintree, MA to integrate the powerful anti-spyware scan engines
of both companies into one feature-filled anti-spyware dynamo
officially known as SSAPI 5 now shipping in several Trend Micro
products, with more to come. The SSAPI engine has powerful features
to address and stop even the most complex and varied categories of
spyware, including support for 64-bit platforms and Windows(TM)
Vista(TM), functionality to stop or eradicate cloaked and deeply
hidden rootkits, improved problem-spyware handling of
self-resuscitating spyware traces, and an enhanced Venus Spy
Trap(TM) active-monitoring feature. Trend Micro product development
teams have been integrating advanced heuristic/behavioral
spyware-blocking features like InterMute(TM) Venus Spy Trap
technology, now shipping for example in the new Trend Micro
Internet Security 2007 for consumers. About Trend Micro
Incorporated Trend Micro Incorporated is a pioneer in secure
content and threat management. Founded in 1988, Trend Micro
provides individuals and organizations of all sizes with
award-winning security software, hardware and services. With
headquarters in Tokyo and operations in more than 30 countries,
Trend Micro solutions are sold through corporate and value-added
resellers and service providers worldwide. For additional
information and evaluation copies of Trend Micro products and
services, visit our Web site at http://www.trendmicro.com/ . *
Source: IDC. "Worldwide Secure Content Management 2006-2010
Forecast Update and 2005 Vendor Shares: The Convergence of Secure
Content and Threat Management." Doc # 203550. September 2006 NOTE:
Trend Micro, OfficeScan, PC-cillin, InterScan Web Security Suite,
Control Manager, InterMute, and the t-ball logo are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Trend Micro Incorporated. TrendLabs is a
registered servicemark of Trend Micro Incorporated. All other
company or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks
of their owners. DATASOURCE: Trend Micro Incorporated CONTACT:
Michael Sweeny of Trend Micro Incorporated, +1-408-863-6384, or Web
site: http://www.trendmicro.com/
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