Trend Micro Smart Protection Network

Trend Micro Smart Protection Network — it infrastructure of security of contents of the client is developed on the basis of solutions and services of Trend Micro company and integrates unique technologies of remote scanning and compact architecture of client software programs.

The new approach focused on reduction to a minimum of volume of loading of updates in the client systems is the basis for infrastructure of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. This principle should become a key component of the new environment of protection against the threats coming from the Internet. Consecutive implementation of this approach when developing new solutions and services of Trend Micro convincingly demonstrates that the company aims at strategic development of technologies of protection of In-The-Cloud.

Several patented corporate technologies in which mechanisms of protection In-The-Cloud are combined with the client systems providing the maximum level of security irrespective of a method of connection to corporate network whether it be connection through a home network, direct connection or connection through a mobile network are a part of infrastructure of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network.

The idea of transition from the classical principles of blocking of threats to deployment of the global intelligent network built based on technologies of protection In-The-Cloud Trend Micro and capable to neutralize dangers is the cornerstone of infrastructure of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network before they reach network or will get into computers of end users. Infrastructure of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network is constructed based on 20 years' experience of product development and solutions which ensured safety of the numerous clients of the company and capable to fight effectively against the malicious software of In-The-Cloud.

The Trend Micro company started in the summer of 2012 the updated option of a cloud service Smart Protection Network. Now this service serving as a support for a set of the products Trend Micro in fight against network threats had new opportunities for protection against the cloud, mobile and directed attacks.

The Smart Protection Network service of Trend Micro company works since 2008. In the new edition it offers expanded functions for the analysis of large amounts of data that allows Trend Micro company to identify quickly unknown threats with broader range of sources, providing global control of a situation and a fast stop of threats. Among new Smart Protection Network technologies – control of reputation for mobile applications (for mobile threats), rules of determination of vulnerabilities (for vulnerabilities and exploits), rules of inspection of network (for network communication) and also maintaining cloud "white lists" (for an exception of false operations). In combination with the existing technologies of control of reputation (for the websites, e-mail and files) it improves quality of work of Trend Micro on detection of threats on a global scale.

Except internal tools for search of interrelations between all components of the attacks and also behavior modeling of cybercriminals and Wednesdays in which they work in the new edition of Trend Micro service instant processing and dissemination of information on threats for all products using information of Smart Protection Network for fight against viruses on places functions. For example, this cloud service is used as the main source of information in a packet of Trend Micro Deep Security – a flagship product of the company for physical, virtual and cloud environments; Trend Micro Deep Discovery – the innovative solution for search of dangerous and permanent threats; and also Trend Micro Titanium – the system of protection of client terminals of consumer level.

The scale of Smart Protection Network service is illustrated by statistics. In 2008 the Trend Micro company detected 1 million samples of viruses, and by 2012 the number of the monitored unique threats grew to 30 million. In 2008 the Trend Micro company monitored less than 100 threats for mobile systems, and in 2012 more than 27 thousand new malware only for the Android platform are found already. In the beginning the Smart Protection Network service controlled 5 billion requests according to the analysis of the addresses URL, e-mail and files in day. In 2012 this number trebled and made over 16 billion requests a day. The volume of the analyzed data grew with 1 Tb a day to more than 6 Tb. Now Smart Protection Network defines and blocks more than 200 million threats a day, i.e. more than 2300 per second. The nodes ensuring functioning of service support research laboratories in 12 regions of the world and 1200 experts in security. By request the Trend Micro company delivers local Smart Protection Server options that all operations on processing of especially confidential and important data were not beyond a local network.

The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network service is integrated with all relevant products and services of Trend Micro. Based on service several free online tools, including Trend Micro HouseCall (an antivirus on demand) are offered, to Trend Micro HouseCall for Mobile (scanning of Android devices on existence of the infected and initially harmful applications), Trend Micro Smart Surfing for the IOS platform (blocking of dangerous content) and Trend Micro ThreatWatch for iPhone and Android (the aggregator of news on security on the mobile device).