Trend Micro ESS provides 'light, lean' protection vs digital threats

MANILA, Philippines - Enterprises are constantly challenged by numerous challenges, both within the organization and outside. While competition drives enterprises to improve their services, not being familiar with certain types of technologies could lead to issues that may be detrimental to the organization.

One of these issues is increased sophistication of information technology infrastructure. Developments in software have allowed businesses to maintain control of their business processes but increasing complexity of software has also pushed the barrier for hardware requirements.

Along with sophistication of operating systems and office-related applications, security software has also become just as complex especially as new threats are being found every day.

Security software is composed of the program part and the signature part; the latter requires updates of new malicious software signatures to protect computers from threats. But the more signatures added the more hardware resources it consumes, which affects the overall performance of the computer. Businesses would suffer as system resources are consumed for the sake of security.

Efforts by software security firms are being made to improve the performance of security products without sacrificing hardware operations. But no one company can provide 100 percent protection without continuously updating their products.

Developing more performance-based, full protection security software becomes a challenge in itself especially for the business market.

Trend Micro has been at the cutting edge of wide-ranging IT security applications. Years of research and development have created some of the company’s turnkey products.

Trend Micro Enterprise Security Suite (ESS) combines these solutions into a light-and-lean gateway-to-endpoint package. It integrates innovative multi-layered defense with new cloud-based intelligence functionality, which stops threats before they can enter a network and reduces malware infection rate by as much as 62 percent.

The Trend Micro Enterprise Security Suite uses up to 60 percent less resources compared to leading competitors, making it run 60 percent faster. Its minimal footprint frees up critical resources for a user’s applications.

It also offers support for heterogeneous IT environments to reduce operational complexity and maximizes insights into security status, with consolidated reporting and advanced threat statistics. Moreover, it integrates tightly with Microsoft, Cisco, and IBM Lotus systems.

ESS covers all enterprise network infrastructure points, including gateways, mail and file servers, PC clients and even mobile devices. It protects against all types of threats such as Trojans, spyware and rootkits, host intrusion, spam and phishing, inappropriate content, data loss and other Web threats.

Jefferson Lat, senior manager for Philippine sales, said ESS was developed specifically to provide an all-encompassing enterprise-level security solution with low IT infrastructure resource consumption but more robust threat prevention.

“Complex IT infrastructure are also becoming as much a challenge to enterprises as their business competition. We are addressing concerns on both the network infrastructure security side and system resources consumption. ESS is by far the fastest, lightest and leanest threat management and security product anywhere around,” Lat said.

Lat was referring to an independent study by Osterman Research showing that the ESS is the most cost-effective security solution compared to other brands.