Real-Time Security from the Cloud
It's Cloud Security Made Smarter
The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™ uses a global network of threat intelligence sensors to continually update email, web, and file reputation databases in the cloud, identifying and blocking threats in real time before they reach you. It’s cloud security made smarter. Read datasheet (PDF)
Immediate Protection Wherever You Connect
Using Smart Feedback from products and services around the world, each discovery of a new threat and its origin instantly updates the Smart Protection Network. Global threat data continuously updated and correlated in the cloud ensures automatic protection from threats wherever and however you connect.
Proven Effective
New malware is created every second. Ever more complex, today’s attacks are difficult to detect and prevent. Independent tests prove the effectiveness of Trend Micro’s approach in combating two big security challenges – complexity and volume. Smart Protection Network technology consistently beats the competition in stopping more threats faster.
Easy on System Resources
By processing threat information in the cloud rather than on individual machines, we reduce the demand on system resources and eliminate time-consuming signature downloads. Higher performance and fewer maintenance requirements lower operating costs as well.
“It is a fact that Smart Protection Network has improved our protection. It prevents infections significantly better than our previous security solution.”
— A. Williams, Network Manager, Walled Lake Consolidated School District
Web Reputation Technology
- Leverages one of the largest domain-reputation databases in the world to track credibility of websites and pages
- Assigns reputation scores to web domains and individual pages or links within sites since often only portions of legitimate sites are hacked
- Blocks users from accessing compromised or infected sites
Email Reputation Technology
- Validates IP addresses by checking them against a reputation database
- Analyzes worldwide spam activity and monitors spam sources and sender reputation in real time
- Refines reputation ratings through continuous analysis of the IP address
- Blocks malicious emails and threats such as zombies, in the cloud, before they reach you
File Reputation Technology
- Checks the reputation of each file against an extensive database before permitting user access
- Uses high performance content delivery networks and local caching servers to ensure minimum latency during the validation process
- Leverages cloud-client architecture to decrease the size of the local pattern file, thus minimizing demand on network resources
Correlation Technology
- Applying behavior analysis, analyzes combinations of activities and the components of threats to determine if they are malicious
- Continuously updates and correlates multiple threat databases to ensure real-time threat response, be it from a malicious website, spam sender or infected file
Smart Protection Server
- Performs web and file reputation queries directly to local servers, without the need to go to the public cloud
- Saves network bandwidth and improves efficiency of endpoint security updates
- Ensures privacy of your data
Smart Feedback
- A “neighborhood watch” system of community protection via 24x7 communication between Trend Micro products, research centers and technologies for "better together" security
- Automatic updates to Trend Micro’s global threat databases each time a new threat is identified on a single customer’s routine reputation check
Threat Intelligence
- Threat data continuously gathered through extensive network of honeypots, submissions, feedback loops, web crawling technologies, customers, and partners
- Analyzed in real-time via queries to malware knowledge databases and by global research, service and support centers
- 1,000+ TrendLabs security experts worldwide provide real-time security measures designed to detect, pre-empt, and eliminate attacks
Technical Details
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“Today, when I look at the numbers, it is astounding. Smart Protection Network is stopping attempted accesses to hundreds of bad sites per day. One month, the number of blocked accesses reached 50,000. Keeping employees off of risky sites really gives us peace of mind.”
— Kurt Nikolas, Security Analyst Consultant for Ceridian
Read the Case Study (PDF)
Trend Micro products, cloud-powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, are proven by multiple testing labs to protect better than our competition.
What makes it real? Traditional static testing only detects infected files after they've landed on your computer; real-world tests provide a more realistic assessment of the efficacy of endpoint security solutions today. In real-world testing:
- All attack samples are sourced live from the internet at the time of the test
- Attack samples are presented to the tested products simultaneously
- Attack samples are presented using realistic attack vectors
- All the security layers and countermeasures within a product are given the opportunity to block an attack sample
Every day in the Smart Protection Network:
- 45+ billion URLs, emails and files queried*
- Billions of threats blocked
- 2.8+ terabytes of data processed
- 100+ million users connected
- 1,000+ global security experts provide 24x7 threat surveillance and attack prevention
*Numbers shown are uncached queries. Trend Micro uses caching technology to improve bandwidth and speed of queries
Benchmark Source Data:
NSS Labs
Dennis Technology Lab
AV-Test
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