Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services Dynamic Network-Layer Spam Protection

>> ANTI-SPAM Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services Dynamic Network-Layer Spam Protection Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services identify and stop spam at its source—before it can flood your messaging infrastructure, overload mail gateway security, and burden system resources. These services block spam at the network level by verifying IP addresses against the world’s largest, most trusted reputation database—managed by the Trend Micro Threat Prevention Network—with 1.6 billion IP addresses rated for spamming activity. As the first line of defense, Email Reputation Services block up to 80% of incoming spam with almost zero false positives. By reducing the volume of spam, it significantly improves corporate messaging security. While continually updating the reputation database, Trend Micro Threat Prevention Network also maintains a fully dynamic blacklist, utilizing heuristics, advanced algorithms, and real-time behavior monitoring to identify new sources of spam, including zombies and botnets, as they first begin to spam. Key Advantages Stops spam at its source Easy to set up, scale, and maintain With spam accounting for 75% of total email volume*, IT resources Trend Micro Email Reputation Services are installed through a and gateway spam filters are often overwhelmed. Trend Micro simple configuration of the MTA and can scale easily to combat the Email Reputation Services stops spam at the IP connection level— growing volume of spam—unlike appliance solutions that require identifying the source—even sources that are difficult to track, such additional hardware. Plus, there is no additional software required as zombies and botnets. By blocking spam before it can traverse and no need for manual tuning of policies—a key advantage over the enterprise perimeter, it relieves the burden on mission-critical traditional spam filtering solutions. messaging systems—a key advantage over application-based anti-spam solutions that manage spam after it enters your network. Lowers cost of ownership *(Metagroup, November 2004) By blocking up to 80% of spam before it hits the corporate network, reputation services prevent junk mail from wasting your employees’ Blocks spam with almost zero false positives valuable time, clogging bandwidth, and hogging system resources. The extensive reputation database contains IP addresses with The costs for both storage and administrative review are greatly comprehensive spamming histories and spam samples. To ensure reduced. Unlike appliance-based and traditional software-based accuracy and reliability, Trend Micro Threat Prevention Network, a solutions, Email Reputation Services are not hardware dependent, team of highly trained spam investigators, carefully monitors and which translates into lower equipment costs. maintains reputation ratings, minimising false positives. This high level of service is a critical component that you do not get with free Industry-Leading Reputation Technology and Service blacklists, which are often outdated and unreliable. Email Reputation Services are built on innovative methodologies that are now the industry standard for DNS lookups used to check IP address blacklists and whitelists. In addition, the services are supported by Trend Micro Threat Prevention Network, our team of highly trained spam investigators. Threat Prevention Network Reputation Manages the Email Reputation DNS Services Standard and Server Advanced Databases DNS Query Response with rating End-user With Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services, the MTA queries the IP reputation database, Internet End-user rejecting spam at the connection Spam is rejected level—before it can enter your network. Spammer MTA or Firewall Mail Server Quarantine w/content and virus filtering >> ANTI-SPAM Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services Advanced and Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Standard The family of Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Services includes Trend Micro™ Email Trend Micro Threat Prevention Reputation Service Standard and Trend Micro™ Email Reputation Service Advanced, which Network Trend Micro Reputation Services are powered combines standard and dynamic real-time spam blocking—for the most comprehensive by high-quality service from Trend Micro Threat network layer spam protection. The key features and benefits of these services are outlined Prevention Network, a global team of in the chart below: experienced spam investigators who research, collect, process, and distribute reputation ratings Trend Micro Email on IP addresses. These highly trained Key Features Reputation Key Benefits Anti-Spam Services specialists operate around the clock to monitor Service Standard spam activity, develop information on spam Dynamic Real-Time Spam Blocking • Stops spam at its source in real time sources, verify the accuracy of reputation as it is being sent—before it can ratings, and work with organisations to ensure Identifies suspect behaviour with invade the network the service is tracking spammers correctly. For advanced algorithms, heuristics, and • Protects against the newest sources of real-time monitoring spam, including zombies and botnets, more information about Trend Micro Threat which are hard to track and stop Prevention Network service and support, go to: Rates reputation of new spam sources • Continually updates the database as www.trendmicro-europe.com/tpn/ with dynamic rating technology new attacks occur; only blocks active sources Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro, Inc., is a global leader in network Comprehensive Reputation Database • Effectively blocks spam at the source—with few false-positives antivirus and Internet content security software Verifies IP addresses against largest, • Enables administrators to make and services, focused on helping customers most reliable reputation database of 1.6 informed decisions whether to block, prevent and minimise the impact of network billion IP addresses accept ot quarantine messages viruses and mixed-threat attacks through its Provides comprehensive spam histories award-winning Trend Micro™ Enterprise and spam samples Protection Strategy. Trend Micro has worldwide Mixed-Threat Security • Reduces burden on gateway security operations and trades stock on the Tokyo Stock solutions—for improved effectiveness Exchange and NASDAQ. Blocks viruses, spyware, and grayware • Blocks phishing-related emails that that use spamming tactics to propagate lure victims to give out credit card Trend Micro (UK) Limited Protects agains phishing attacks numbers, user names, passwords, etc. Pacific House Guards against directory harvesting • Prevents spammers from harvesting Third Avenue attacks corporate directories, which consumes Globe Business Park resources and leads to higher spam Marlow volume Buckinghamshire Compatibility with Leading Systems • Easily configurated to work with SL7 1YL existing MTA England Supports leading MTAs, including • Provides the first layer of protection, Tel: +44 (0) 1628 400500 Postfix, qmail, and Sendmail reducing the volume of spam that Fax: +44 (0) 1628 400511 must be filtered at the messaging Complements Trend Micro Spam www.trendmicro-europe.com gateway Prevention Solution System Requirements For Microsoft™ Windows™, Linux™, or Sun™ Solaris™ • Trend Micro Email Reputation Services Standard currently supports any of the MTAs listed below. • Trend Micro Email Reputation Services Advanced currently supports the MTAs listed in red. 4th Dimension, WebSTAR V Kerio Mail Server Surfcontrol Aladin, eSafe McAfee, WebShield Sybari, Antigen Alt-N, Mdaemon Macintosh, OS X Mail Server Symantec, AntiVirus for SMTP Gateway Clearswift, MailSweeper Microsoft, Exchange 2003 Symantec, Firewall CMS, Praetor Mirrorpoint Symantec, Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Deerfield, VisNetic Mail Server NetIQ, NetIQ MailMarshal Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Messaging Security Suite* Eudora Internet Mail Server Postfix Tumbleweed, MailGate exim, exim Internet Mailer Proofpoint Protection Server Watchguard, SpamScreen Gordano, Gordano Messaging Server qmail Xwall Gwava Sendmail Zix Corp, Message Inspector IronPort Secure Computing, Sidewinder *InterScan Messaging Security Suite for Windows requires Service Pack 4 ©2002 - 2007 by Trend Micro Incorporated. 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