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TrendMicro Adds Enhanced Host Security & New Cloud Encryption: Page 2 of 2

Trend Micro is adding an anti-malware module to its host-based security product, now Deep Security 7.5, the host-based intrusion prevention product from the acquisition of Third Brigade last year. They are also introducing SecureCloud, a hosted encryption service for protecting data in the cloud. The anti-malware capability protects individual virtual machines at the hypervisor level, eliminating the need for managing agents on each client VM. SecureCloud encrypts data to and from Infrastructure
August 31, 2010

The anti-malware module simplifies configuration, update and patch management. It also assures that new VMs and VMs which may have been offline have current protection. Deep Security avoids the performance impact from serial anti-virus scans and updates. Enterprises using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can leverage Deep Security by installing it on host servers in the cloud provider environment. Deep Security 7.5 is in beta and expected to be available in Fall 2010. Pricing starts at $1000/cpu socket.

The cloud encryption service, SecureCloud is also designed for IaaS scenarios. The service provides block encryption for mounted storage volumes by installing an agent on the cloud servers and retaining key management. Trend is building upon the encryption technology from its Identum acquisition in 2008, which serves as the basis of its e-mail encryption.

TrendMicro claims SecureCloud will facilitate movement from the data center to the cloud and eases portability between service providers, as it delivers control, security and compliance through encryption. When auditors come around, IT can say have policies and encryption in place reducing the scope of the audit. SecureCloud is available for beta trial now, initially for Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus and VMware vCloud services and will be generally available in Q4. Trend Micro also plans an on-premises product that will organizations to encrypt data in the cloud and manage their own encryption keys to be released in the first half of 2011.

"Today, encryption is only way a company gain a little bit of comfort in terms of data protection in cloud," said Forrester's Wang. "Otherwise any admin from the public cloud company can look at your data."

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