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InterScan Web Security

Deeper Visibility for Maximum Control

Faced with today’s advanced Internet threats and the growing use of cloud-based consumer applications in the workplace, application visibility is essential to understanding network risks and managing a workforce without limits. InterScan™ Web Security is a software virtual appliance that combines application control with advanced anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering to provide superior Internet threat protection.

Interscan Web Security

Delivers unparalleled visibility and control

  • Allows deeper and more complete visibility
  • Centralizes management for maximized control
  • Monitors web use as it happens
  • Enables on-the-spot remediation
  • Reduces sprawl and energy costs

Combined with superior anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering, new features provide greater visibility into and control over the growing use of cloud-based applications on the network. When deployed with Trend Micro™ Advanced Reporting and Management, your administrators gain real-time visibility of Internet activity - enabling on-the-spot risk management.

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Anti-Malware

Integrates with VMware environments for agentless protection, or provides an agent for physical servers and virtual desktops in local mode.

Combined with superior anti-malware scanning, real-time web reputation, and flexible URL filtering, new features provide greater visibility into and control over the growing use of cloud-based applications on the network.

  • Allows deeper more complete visibility
  • Centralizes management for maximized control
  • Monitors web use as it happens
  • Enables on-the-spot remediation
  • Reduces sprawl and energy costs

Maximizes Visibility and Control

Monitor and Report on more than 420 Internet protocols, including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, social networking applications, and streaming media.

  • Allow users to access cloud-based applications, but enforce acceptable use policies to mitigate risks and conserve resources.

Reporting and Management for Real-Time Monitoring

  • Monitors web use as it happens, enabling on-the-spot remediation.
  • Centralizes management of distributed web gateways across the WAN.

Optimizes Resources and Availability

  • Deploys as a virtual appliance or software appliance, supporting datacenter consolidation and standardization.
  • Increases utilization rates of existing servers, reducing sprawl and energy costs.
  • Improves security levels with quick deployment of new capacity as needed.
  • Speeds recovery from unplanned outages with native failover and redundancy functions.

Simplifies Installation and Maintenance

  • Quickly deploys a hardened, tuned OS and Internet security application integrated within your enterprise hardware platform of choice.
  • Eliminates the headaches of OS and security updates, version control, and testing.
  • Offers extensive deployment options - for scalability, performance, and reliability.

Web Reputation with Correlated Threat Data

  • Blocks access to sites with malicious activity to protect against new, unknown threats in real time.
  • Powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, which processes over 5+ billion queries daily to provide a comprehensive view of Internet threats.

Powerful URL and Active Code Filtering

Leverages real-time URL categorization and reputation to identity inappropriate or malicious sites.

  • Offers six different policy actions for web access control (monitor, allow, warn, block, block with password override, enforce time quota).
  • Supports object-level blocking within dynamic web pages such as Web 2.0 mashups.
  • Stops drive-by downloads and blocks access to spyware and phishing-related websites.

Flexible Deployment and Integration

  • Offers multiple network deployment options, including transparent bridge, ICAP, WCCP, forward or reverse proxy.
  • Ensures scalability, performance, and reliability without the cost of adding external load balancers
  • Supports LDAP, Active Directory™, Syslog, and SNMP for tighter integration and lower TCO.

Automatic Clean-Up

  • Integrates with Trend Micro™ Damage Cleanup Services to automatically remove threats from infected endpoints.


Delivers Unparalleled Visibility and Control

InterScan Web Security offers unmatched protection at the Internet gateway and provides the visibility and control required for IT administrators to keep their networks safe and their users productive.

Best of all, InterScan Web Security can run as a dedicated software appliance on industry standard servers, or as a virtual appliance.

Award-Winning Gateway Antivirus and Antispyware

  • Scans inbound and outbound HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP traffic for malware
  • Prevents malware from entering your network, relieving the burden on endpoint security
  • Stops virus and spyware downloads, botnets, phone home attempts, and malware tunneling

Web Reputation with Correlated Threat Data

  • Blocks access to sites with malicious activity to protect against new, unknown threats in real time
  • Powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, which processes over 5+ billion queries daily to provide a comprehensive view of Internet threats

Powerful URL and Active Code Filtering

  • Leverages real-time URL categorization and reputation to identity inappropriate or malicious sites
  • Offers six different policy actions for web access control (monitor, allow, warn, block, block with password override, enforce time quota)
  • Supports object-level blocking within dynamic web pages such as Web 2.0 mashups
  • Stops drive-by downloads and blocks access to spyware and phishing-related websites

Real-Time Reporting and Central Management (with The Optional Advanced Reporting and Management Module)

  • Monitors Internet activity as it happens—for unprecedented visibility
  • Changes reporting to a proactive decision-making tool, enabling on-the-spot remediation
  • Centralizes the configuration and reporting of multiple instances of the software virtual appliance

Advanced Reporting and Management

If you lose visibility into what’s happening on your network, you have no control over what happens on it.

Deep Security Virtual Appliance

Whether it’s malware delivered from a legitimate site, accessing illegal or inappropriate content, or using the latest Web 2.0 app to stream video, you need to know who is going where and when. To combat the dramatic rise in web threats, your enterprise needs immediate access to critical information about the safety of your network and how the Internet is being used. You also need clear visibility into users’ Internet activity with real-time monitoring and detailed forensics in order to adequately protect against these threats.

Trend Micro™ Advanced Reporting and Management provides customers with unprecedented visibility into how the Internet is impacting their organization. Advanced Reporting and Management applies state-of-the-art database technology and user interface design to help reduce the organization’s exposure to non-business Internet use and increase their security posture against the latest web threats. Administrators and management have the ability to quickly and easily understand what is happening across their network in real time, drill down into specific areas of interest, and set policies in InterScan Web Security to enforce their network rules.

Key Benefits

  • Accelerates problem resolution by monitoring Internet use and threat activity in real time
  • Simplifies operations by centralizing logging, reporting and management for multi-unit support
  • Extends visibility with over 50 standard reports and custom report capability
  • Reduces costs with real-time troubleshooting and forensics capabilities
  • Standardizes security policies with policy and configuration replication and synchronization

Advanced Reporting and Management centralizes the logging, reporting, configuration management and policy synchronization across multiple InterScan Web Security servers. Through a single console, administrators can more effectively monitor, manage, and secure their organizations Internet usage. Because the solution installs as a software virtual appliance, IT can consolidate hardware resources, optimize utilization, and reduce the cost of deployment and operation



Systems Requirements

System Requirements for InterScan Web Security

The minimum requirements specified provide enough resources to properly evaluate the product under light traffic loads. The recommended requirements specified provide general production sizing guidance

Minimum Requirements:

  • Single 2.0 GHz Intel™ Core2Duo™ 64-bit processor supporting Intel VT™ or equivalent
  • 2GB RAM
  • 12GB of disk space (IWSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space as required)
  • Monitor that supports 1024x768 resolution with 256 colors or higher

Recommended Requirements:

  • Dual 2.8 GHz Intel Core2Duo 64-bit processor or equivalent for up to 4000 users
  • Dual 3.16 GHz Intel QuadCore™ 64-bit processor or equivalent for up to 9500 users
  • For up to 4000 Users: Dual 2.8 GHz Intel CoreDuo 64-bit processor or equivalent, 4GB RAM
  • For up to 9500 Users: Dual 3.16 GHz Intel QuadCore 64-bit processor or equivalent, 8GB RAM
  • 300GB of disk space or more for log-intensive environments. IWSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space as per recommended Linux practices

Server Platform Compatibility:

  • Virtual Appliances: Support VMware ESX and ESXi v3.5+ and Hyper-V 2008 R2+
  • Software Appliances: For the latest Certified by Trend Micro platforms, visit: http://www.trendmicro.com/go/certified

System Requirements for Advanced Reporting and Management

Minimum Requirements:

  • Single 2.0 GHz Intel ™ Core2Duo™ 64-bit processor supporting Intel™ VT™ or equivalent
  • 2GB RAM
  • 8GB of disk space
  • Monitor that supports 1280 x 1024 resolution with 256 colors or higher

Recommended Requirements:

Recommended for environments up to approximately 10K users.*

Dual 2.8 Ghz Intel Core2Duo 64-bit processor or equivalent for up to 2500 event per second.

  • 4GB RAM
  • Up to a maximum of 1000 events per second
  • 20 total active dashboards among all administrators
  • 8GB RAM
  • Up to a maximum of 2500 events per second
  • 40 total active dashboards among all administrators
Recommended for environments over 10K users.*

Dual 3.16 Ghz Intel QuadCore 64-bit processor or equivalent for over 2500 events per second.

  • 8GB RAM
  • Up to a maximum of 2500 events per second
  • 40 total active dashboards among all administrators
  • 12GB RAM
  • Up to a maximum of 4000 events per second
  • 60 total active dashboards among all administrators
  • 16GB RAM
  • Up to a maximum of 6000 events per second
  • 80 total active dashboards among all administrators

* The number of users is an estimate and is used to roughly gauge the number of events produced per second. Using events per second as the primary sizing metric is recommended



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