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Details of Tendency Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services

Expert Ed Tittel takes a closer look at Trend Micro Worry-Free Concern Security Services, an antivirus and antimalware production for small organizations.

Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security is designed to protect physical and virtualized endpoints in modest organizations (typically 2 to 100 users) from malware, data loss and web threats. This commodity focuses on Worry-Free Concern Security 9, also as Trend Micro's new Worry-Gratuitous hosted versions.

Characteristic set

Trend Micro offers Worry-Free Business Security in Standard and Advanced versions (for on-premises installation), and Worry-Complimentary Security Services and Avant-garde Services, which are cloud-based hosted solutions. All versions provide antivirus and other malware protection for threats like bots and rootkits, antispyware protection, URL filtering to block admission to certain websites, ransomware protection, and general spider web threat protection. In improver, they provide device control for fastened devices, like USB and DVD drives, to help prevent information loss.

Worry-Free Concern Security Avant-garde includes all the Worry-Gratuitous Business Security Standard features, plus existent-time scanning of POP3 email accounts, electronic mail content filtering and data loss prevention, spam blocking earlier spam reaches the mail service server, and, via Microsoft Exchange Server, phishing protection and Mac client protection.

Worry-Gratuitous Security Services and Advanced Services enable server-gratuitous protection in any environment, including branch and remote locations, and they support Android and iOS devices.

Platform coverage

Trend Micro Worry-Complimentary Business organisation Security Standard and Avant-garde support most editions of Windows desktop and server products. For the desktop, supported operating systems are Windows XP SP3 through Windows 10. Supported servers are Windows Server 2003 through Windows Server 2012 R2, along with some versions of Windows Server Essentials, Windows Storage Server and Windows Habitation Server. The product also supports macOS (desktop and server), but non Linux.

Supported virtualization platforms include Citrix XenApp, XenServer and XenClient; VMware ESX, Server and Workstation; and Microsoft Hyper-V and Remote Desktop.

For customers running Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Worry-Free Business concern Security Advanced supports devices running the Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Telephone mobile operating systems. For those users, mobile device protection includes device access control, remote wipe and security policy-enforced features, such as enhanced passwords and automatic locking later on a catamenia of inactivity.

The cloud-based Services and Advanced Services versions support password security and remote lock and wipe for Android and iOS devices, as well every bit remote locate, app scanning and dangerous website blocking for Android devices only.

Operation

No test results from independent testers were located for Worry-Gratuitous Business organization Security Standard or Avant-garde. However, those products use the same engines and pattern files as Trend Micro OfficeScan and Trend Micro Net Security.

OfficeScan running on Windows ten scored loftier on protection, performance and usability tests performed by contained tester AV-Examination (a total of 17 out of 18 in November and Dec 2016), and Internet Security 2017 running on Windows 8.1 scored 17.five points during the aforementioned flow.

Manageability

Tendency Micro pitches Worry-Gratuitous Security products as being easy to install and utilise, with minimal IT expertise required. Each product includes a security server with a web-based management console from which agents are installed on network clients; the agents run in the background on each client, using minimal system resource.

The security server enables an ambassador to configure security settings, view agent and security status information, and push components to clients across the network. The security server also contains a database of internet threats, which are detected and reported by the agents.

Administrators can customize installation options, selecting just the components they demand for a particular environment. Most continuous updates are stored on the security server and are pushed out to clients, reducing organisation overhead on those systems.

Pricing and licensing

Trend Micro Worry-Gratuitous Concern Security (both Standard and Advanced) is licensed on a per-user basis and can be purchased online from the Trend Micro website; customers needing more 100 licenses must contact a reseller.

The same pricing scheme applies to Trend Micro Worry-Gratuitous Services and Avant-garde Services. The following table lists the manufacturer suggested retail cost for licenses with a one-year maintenance agreement, including program updates and standard back up. Each license includes protection for two mobile devices, whether Android or iOS.

A gratuitous, fully performance 30-day trial of each version of Worry-Costless Business Security is available upon request past visiting the Tendency Micro website.

Back up

To resolve an issue, customers can utilise Tendency Micro's online give-and-take forums and its detailed online knowledge base. Trend Micro as well provides freely available downloads of all product manuals.

If further support is needed, customers tin use Worry-Free 24/seven support, which is part of an agile maintenance agreement, by contacting a Trend Micro support engineer by telephone, email or the web. Worry-Free 24/7 back up provides around-the-clock admission to Tendency Micro support engineers for priority event resolution and assistance removing malware infections.

Adjacent Steps

Check out the other antimalware protection products featured in this series: Kaspersky Endpoint Security, McAfee Endpoint Protection Suite, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Tendency Micro OfficeScan, Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Endpoint Protection, Sophos Enduser Protection.

This was last published in August 2017

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