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Micro recently announced the Indian launch of the InterScan
Messaging Security Suite (IMSS) for Internet gateways. Goh
Chee Hoh, regional sales director-overseas business unit,
spoke to Punita Jasrotia about the new product, their
India strategy and the different security trends post 9/11
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What is IMSS all about?
IMSS is the first solution to be launched under our Next Generation
series, which stops and contains new viruses before updated
protection is available with its unique capability called
‘Outbreak Prevention Policy’. The suite automatically
retrieves instructions from the Trend Micro’s servers
to block e-mails matching the general characteristics of known
virus carriers until a solution is found to clean and eradicate
it. Customers can also block mass mailing viruses and e-mails
that carry them to the Internet Gateway, before they reach
end users preventing damaging denial-of-service attacks and
reducing clean up time after a virus outbreak. Complex viruses
like Code Red and Nimda can be caught by setting filters that
screen the message—header, subject line, body and attachments
that contain them. This policy-based content security also
allows customers to develop individual e-mail usage policies
for various departments or individuals in order to limit non-business
related e-mail, preventing transfer of inappropriate content
and preserving network bandwidth.
* Post 9/11 there has been an increase in the security
concerns worldwide? Where does Trend Miocro see itself in
this market with special reference to the market in A-PAC?
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agree that post 9/11 there has been an increase in security
concerns which in one way is good news for us, as not only
have we recorded an increase in business coming from the enterprises
segment, but from the small and SOHO segments too. Content
security is generally divided into four layers—the Internet
Gateway, e-mail system/groupware, file server/storage and
desktop/PCs. With an increase in Internet penetration, it
is the Internet gateway and e-mail system layers that are
expected to fetch high revenues. This is further strengthened
through the launch of our next generation solutions consisting
of shielding, action template, restoration, monitoring and
management. Under this, we have already introduced IMSS (part
of the shielding solution), which helps in limiting the damage
by stricter security defence in potential infection channels
or targets.
The other solutions in this series are: the action template
(consisting of embedded virus knowledge into action template
and provides solutions for IT managers to fight back); restoration
(kicks all infected threats and lifts restricted information
to have all systems back to normal), monitoring (it continuously
monitors internal systems to avoid virus re-break) and the
management, which acts as a reliable outbreak commander centre
to have complete virus combat execution. After the launch
of IMSS, the company is planning to introduce action template
and restoration solutions in the coming months.
For India, we have set ourselves a growth target of 250 percent
this year. As part of this plan, we will double our head count,
continue our strong growth in the enterprise segment and increase
penetration in the SOHO and SME segment. To this end we are
building a solid ‘tier two resellers channel network’.
For this year, the company plans to target verticals such
as Banking and Financial Institutes, call centres, manufacturing
and the government or PSU sector, besides forging partnerships
with leading system integrators for the growth of our anti-virus
solutions.
* What are the trends you see in security in the future?
According to a recent survey by International Computer Security
Association (ICSA), 87 percent of viruses spread through e-mail.
Powerful new generation viruses use multi-spreading channels
which mean that not only are they difficult to block and clean,
but also difficult to isolate. The top security concerns for
any company remain—malicious codes (consisting of viruses,
Trojans and worms), loss of privacy or confidentiality (includes
abuse and misuse of data), electronic exploits/tools (includes
hacking, eavesdropping) and system unavailability.
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