Trend Micro Mobile App Reputation

The Trend Micro company, one of leaders in the field of cloud solutions of security, provided at the beginning of 2012 the new technology of reputation assessment of mobile applications under the name Mobile App Reputation. According to the statement of the developer, this solution, the first in the history of the industry, for automatic identification, the analysis and assessment of mobile applications by such criteria as accomplishment of harmful actions (possibly, reserved calls and the SMS on paid numbers mean), plunder of private user data and also unjustified consumption of memory of the device, network traffic and battery power.

Corporate infrastructure of Smart Protection Network which provides protection against the harmful websites, e-mails and files in desktop and server products of security of Trend Micro is the cornerstone of the presented solution. Now possibilities of this infrastructure it is decided to place at service users of mobile devices, application developers, network operators and online stores of applications. The analysis of the code of mobile application and its appeals to the websites and also dynamic control of behavior with further correlation of the revealed features with the extensive and permanent updated knowledge base on security risks allow to identify dangerous mobile applications with high reliability.

The provided technology supports only the Android and Symbian operating systems so far, however the Trend Micro company is going to extend it and to other mobile platforms over time. According to the statement of developers at the moment the technology in Smart Protection Network traces more than 250 thousand applications and allows daily enters in the database 5 thousand new applications and program updates.