Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704, NASDAQ: TMIC), a leader in network antivirus and content security, has launched InterScan™ Messaging Security Appliance, a comprehensive solution for enterprises to address email-based threats including spam, phishing, bots, spyware, and viruses, as well as content compliance.

With the release of InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, customers can receive the same superior email security on either software or an appliance, enabling them to pick the solution that best fits their network environment. While InterScan Messaging Security Appliance offers the same security features and flexible policy implementation as its software predecessor—InterScan Messaging Security Suite—the appliance form factor provides high throughput with hardware redundancy to ensure continuous security.

“Trend Micro remains the global leader in gateway security because we never lose sight of product innovation—everything from new and improved levels of threat protection to catering to the form-factor preferences of our broad customer base,” said Max Cheng, general manager Trend Micro enterprise business operations. “With the release of InterScan Messaging Security Appliance, Trend Micro is combining its best-of-breed email security with the performance advantages of a hardware appliance to specifically address customers with exceptionally demanding network requirements.”

InterScan Messaging Security Appliance offers comprehensive email protection at the gateway. This solution provide anti-spam and anti-phishing protection, award winning antivirus that includes IntelliTrapTM technology to combat zero-day threats, as well as providing flexible content filtering to support regulatory compliance, assist with corporate governance, and prevent loss of confidential information. In addition, all of this protection is seamlessly integrated and centrally managed in the Web-based InterScan Messaging Security Appliance console.

To achieve industry-leading spam catch rates with very low false positives, Trend Micro has armed its customers with dual-layer spam protection called Spam Prevention Solution. Trend Micro Network Reputation Services provides the initial layer of protection by stopping a majority of mail-based threats at the connection layer before they even reach the gateway. The reputation services verify IP addresses of incoming email against the world’s largest, most trusted reputation database, and use a dynamic reputation service to identify new spam and phishing sources, stopping even zombies and botnets when they first emerge.

A new version of Network Reputation Services is integrated into InterScan Messaging Security Appliance in addition to being available as a standalone service. Network Reputation Services provides a new portal that allows customers to set policies for their specific email environment while also enabling customers to easily set specific email blacklist/whitelist policies. One policy-setting feature, for example, restricts email based on the geographical origin or ISP of potential email senders.

The second layer of InterScan Messaging Security Appliances spam protection is a powerful and elegantly architected composite engine. This engine filters spam and phishing emails at the gateway through advanced heuristics, statistical analysis, signature filtering, whitelists, blacklists, and other anti-spam techniques. This combined approach catches any remaining threats before they reach the inbox. The robust composite engine also detects non-English spam, providing additional support for global companies.

“We feel that Trend Micro has a solid strategy in place for continuous product development and improvement and this shows specifically with InterScan Messaging Security Appliance,” said Antonio Traetto, global messaging manager, Rexam. “With the hardware and software coming from Trend Micro, we can have all support coming from one central place, which saves support time, effort and reduces warranty costs.”

The InterScan Messaging Security Appliance is one of the messaging security components of Trend Micro’s Enterprise Protection Strategy, which is the most comprehensive and effective security solution framework available for today’s enterprise. This framework includes products that secure the network at all entry points from the gateway to the desktop.