Fsecure and Trend Micro Announce Threat Solutions
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Mar 26, 2007

F-Secure has added features to its Client Security 7 security solution, to protect corporate PCs against such zero-day and rootkit attacks and ensure data security. The features include DeepGuard application to provide zero-day protection against previously unknown malware. It combines several proactive technologies, such as advanced real-time heuristics, sand boxing and behavior monitoring with signature based antivirus technology to ensure comprehensive data protection.

It requires little user intervention and is enables integration on antivirus and firewall programs.

Other innovations include the ability to find hidden rootkits and lurking spyware through integrated F-Secure BlackLight rootkit scanning functionality. It allows administrators to scan the entire company network, for example, during off peak periods, without affecting network usage.

F-Secure Client Security also includes an expanded quarantine feature to list viruses, spyware and riskware.

F-Secure Policy Manager 7, the security management system that comes as part of the F-Secure Client Security 7 package, includes remote management feature for FSecure Blacklight and F-Secure DeepGuard.

Speaking about the new product, Ari Alakiuttu, Vice President of Product Marketing said: "F-Secure Client Security 7 has been designed to see beneath the surface and defend vigorously with a complete armory of defenses. With F-Secure Client Security 7 we believe we can ensure that modern day corporations who are serious about security can pursue their business with full protection."

Deliveries of F-Secure Client Security 7 will start in the first quarter of 2007. All customers with a valid F-Secure Client Security license can get a free upgrade to the new version. The solution will also be available for Windows Vista.

In an unrelated development, Trend Micro has announced new web threat protection technology.

New in-the-cloud Trend Micro Web Reputation technology is a key new innovation being added to the Trend Micro multi-layered approach to dealing with evolving multi-component Web threats that take advantage of the interactive nature of the Internet.

Total Web Threat Protection is a key component within Trend Micro Secure Content & Threat Management security solutions portfolio.

Trend Micro Total Web Threat Protection Strategy is a multi-layered, multiple threat defense against Web threats, comprising innovative technologies deployed at the gateway, in the network, on the PC, and "in-the-cloud" working seamlessly together to proactively respond to new and emerging Web threats. The security solutions use a tightly integrated combination of Web reputation, URL filtering, antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-spam technology control to deflect Web threats.

The Web reputation functionality is being built into the portfolio of security solutions from consumer to small- and medium-sized business solutions as well as solutions for large enterprises. The technology tracks the credibility of Web domains and extends and applies to the Web threats Trend Micro's already-existing world-class Network Reputation Services, which protects over 78 million email accounts on a global basis.

For mobile business users not on the corporate network, this new Web reputation technology provides even more benefits - it confers protection whether on or off the network, and with no impact to servers, Trend Micro's "in-the-cloud" service also helps preserve IT resources and bandwidth.

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. OfficeScan 8.0 beta adds support for Microsoft Vista, enhances support for 64 bit platforms and provides greater protection against threats via the Web through the addition of Web Security Rating and enhanced anti-spyware technology.

Among consumers, social networking sites have become extremely popular, enabling the Web community to actively interact with others. Such sites provide diverse opportunities to interact with other users, but with such interactive capability also come increased risks of wandering into potentially unsafe Web neighborhoods.

Trend Micro recently announced TrendProtect, a new Web threat reputation service that continuously protects consumers and SOHO's against unwanted Web content and hidden Web threats whenever they are searching or browsing the Internet.

Information regarding the overall reputation of a Website and the trustworthiness of individual Web pages within a site is needed, based on extensive reputation resources that are continuously updated. dditional content-checking techniques track whether a Web site contains undesirable content, based on specified content-filtering categories.