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InterScan Messaging Security

The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Mail Gateway Security

Choose state-of-the-art software or a hybrid solution with on-premise virtual appliance and optional cloud pre-filter that blocks the vast majority of spam and malware outside your network. Plus our Data Privacy and Encryption Module secures outbound data to ensure privacy and regulatory compliance.

Interscan Messaging Security

Hybrid solution secures email—coming and going

  • Gain privacy and control with a local virtual appliance
  • Stop more threats with proactive cloud protection
  • Block more spam—proven #1 in independent tests
  • Protect and encrypt sensitive data

In-the-Cloud Email Filtering

The optional SaaS pre-filter for virtual appliance and software appliance deployments cuts total email volumes up to 95% by blocking threats and spam in the cloud—closer to their source. And your data remains private since email is never stored in the cloud.

  • Lowers impact at the email gateway by filtering email in the cloud
  • Reduces datacenter footprint and minimizes IT staff time
  • Allows you to deploy new capacity quickly where needed
  • Includes our Service Level Agreement that ensures email traffic uptime

Web and Email Reputation

Powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, Web Reputation and Email Reputation stop new and evolving threats before signature files are available.

  • Blocks emails containing malicious web links—the #1 threat today
  • Stops mail from known spam sources and rogue “fast flux” service networks
  • Delivers immediate protection based on up-to-the-minute threat intelligence in the cloud
  • Improves accuracy and responsiveness with in-the-cloud threat correlation

Data Privacy and Encryption (additional license required)

Identity-based encryption and customizable DLP templates for virtual appliance and software appliance deployments make outbound data protection quick to deploy and a breeze to manage.

  • Triggers automatic encryption, quarantine, or notification based on filtering policies
  • Speeds set up of DLP content filtering rules with customizable compliance templates
  • Eliminates the pre-enrollment and certificate management hassles of PKI encryption
  • Reduces the reliance on user-driven encryption with an automated policy-driven gateway solution

Single Management Console

Unifies management of all aspects of gateway messaging security, including cloud pre-filter, on-premise content scanning, DLP, and encryption.

  • Maximizes control and saves time with a fully integrated solution
  • Supports customizable policies and granular, rule-based filtering
  • Integrates quarantines, logs and reports for easy management, message tracking and visibility
  • Cuts management time and speeds compliance audits with detailed reporting

The Most Comprehensive Protection Available

InterScan Messaging Security with the fully integrated Data Privacy and Encryption Module gives you both inbound and outbound security—for the most comprehensive mail gateway protection.

Voted “Gold Winner” by Readers of SearchSecurity.com

SearchSecurity.com polled readers to find the “Best messaging security products of 2011.” InterScan Messaging Security scored the highest marks, beating leading solutions from Cisco and Barracuda. It particularly shined in the category of end-user transparency and ease of use. Readers also like its ability to detect and block spam, phishing attempts, viruses and spyware. Ease of installation, configuration and administration also ranked high.

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#1 Antispam

Opus One antispam test results

In an independent comparison test by Opus One, InterScan Messaging Security with layered antispam stopped more spam than 8 competing solutions.

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Unique Email and Web Reputation

Our reputation services are powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network with more than a hundred million threat sensors in the cloud—so you get faster protection against rapidly evolving threats. Email, web and file threat data is correlated in the cloud, giving you the benefit of better accuracy and responsiveness.


Hybrid SaaS Email Security (no-cost option for virtual appliance and software appliance deployments)

InterScan Messaging Security delivers fully integrated, multi-layered security that starts filtering spam and malicious email in the cloud. At the next layer, it queries cloud-based reputation databases and performs a final sweep at the network perimeter.

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  1. The cloud pre-filter is a SaaS offering included in the licensing agreement; deployment is optional. As a first layer of defense, it stops spam, phishing and malware, including malicious links—before they can reach your network. It reduces total email volumes up to 95%, minimizing the impact on your mail gateway and the drain on IT resources. No email is stored in the cloud to ensure data privacy.

  2. Email and Web Reputation deliver immediate protection by sending real-time queries to the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. Based on up-to-the-minute threat intelligence in the cloud, Email Reputation blocks mail from known spammers and cybercriminals, and Web Reputation blocks access to malicious websites.

  3. Our advanced antispam engine identifies additional spam and phishing threats using signature files—for a layered defense.

  4. Industry-leading anti-malware blocks the wide range of known threats based on signatures and heuristics.

  5. The on-premise virtual appliance takes over once the heavy lifting is done. It scans inbound and outbound email based on flexible and customizable policies, including DLP filtering and encryption.


Choose Security That Fits

InterScan Messaging Security can be deployed as a virtual or software appliance, or as a software solution for Windows and Linux.

Virtual Appliance

Virtualized deployments via Hypervisor technologies

  • Microsoft® Hyper-V Virtual Appliance
  • VMware Ready Virtual Appliance: Rigorously tested and validated by VMware, the only messaging gateway solution to achieve VMware Ready validation. Supports VMware ESX or ESXi v3.5 and vSphere.

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Software Appliance

Bare metal installation with tuned, security-hardened OS

  • Certified by Trend Micro
    Through extensive testing and validation, Trend Micro certifies platforms for compatibility with Trend Micro software virtual appliance solutions.
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Software Deployment

Installs easily on standard hardware

  • InterScan Messaging Security Suite: Includes the same world-class antispam, anti-malware, and content filtering in a standard software solution. SaaS pre-filter and Data Privacy and Encryption module are not available in this implementation.

Virtual Appliances

Server Platform Compatibility:

  • VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 and higher
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Windows 2008 SP1 or Windows 2008 R2
  • Software Appliances: for the latest Certified by Trend Micro platforms, go to http://www.trendmicro.com/go/certified

Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • Two Intel™
  • Xeon processor
  • 4GB RAM
  • 120GB of disk space

Software Deployment:

Microsoft™ Windows™, Linux™

  • 2G RAM of memory
  • 80 GB hard disk spac - 500MB of disk space for installation and additional disk space needed for mail storage and database
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, 7, 8 or Firefox 3
  • LDAP Server Microsoft Active Directory 2000 or 2003, IBM Lotus Domino 6.0 or above, or Sun One LDAP

Microsoft Windows

  • Windows Server 2008 with SP 2.0 or above
  • Windows Server 2003 with SP 2.0 or above
  • Windows Server 2003 R2 with Sp 2.0 or above
  • Two Intel Xeon 3GHz or higher
  • Microsoft Desktop Engine or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or above, SQL Express 2005 or above

Linux

  • Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5
  • Intel Dual Pentium IV 3 GHz
  • 2GB swap space
  • PostgreSQL version 8.1.3 or above
  • MTA Postfix 2.1 or above; Sendmail; Qmail

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