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White Paper Executive Summaries
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ROI for Trend Micro Antivirus Software and Services |
Gartner Group research showed that the customer return on investment
(ROI) for Trend Micro software and services ranged from 19% to 67% during
a payback period ranging from 6 to 10 months.
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The Real Cost of a Virus Outbreak |
From help desk personnel to IT Mangers, every resource involved with
the fall out of a virus outbreak costs you money. And that cost is also affected
if an organization is solely dependant on desktop antivirus or if it also
has email, gateway, and other server-based solutions in place. This document
provides information and links to online tools to help you understand the
relative costs associated with an email-borne virus outbreak within your
own organization.
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Corporate Virus Protection Selection Criteria Guide |
At Trend Micro, we're talking to corporate information security experts
every day. Through these conversations, we get a pretty good picture of what's
important to them in selecting virus protection software - and what's not
important. This paper is a summary of how Trend's customers value the different
aspects of antivirus software functionality.
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Virus and Malicious Code Protection for Wireless Devices |
The ability to transmit and receive wireless data is enabling an entirely
new type of business. M-commerce, perhaps initially visualized by many as
the teenager purchasing a soda using a cell phone in a recent television
commercial, is becoming the new way to purchase goods and services, transfer
funds, and perform other types of wireless transactions.
The estimates of wireless device pervasiveness grow with the release of each
new analyst report. Some industry analysts estimate that the number of wireless
devices worldwide will outnumber desktop and notebook computers four to one
by 2005. One research firm predicts that 525 million WAP-enabled (wireless
application protocol) handsets will be in users' hands as early as 2003.
International Data Corporation1 puts the number at 1.3 billion WAP-enabled
handsets worldwide by 2004, up from 99 million in 2000.
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ICSA 2001 Virus Prevalence Survey |
ICSA Labs' 7th Annual Virus Prevalence Survey indicates that the virus
problem facing corporations continues to worsen -- companies continue to
experience an increasing number of virus incidents with higher virus incident
costs each year. The likelihood of a company experiencing a computer virus
or worm has approximately doubled for each of the past survey years through
1999 and has continued to grow approximately 15 percent per year for the
two years since 1999. Consequently, the virus (malicious code) risk is growing
significantly notwithstanding persistent corporate efforts and in spite of
increased protective expenditures.
The group of 300 organizations had 1,182,634 encounters on 666,327 machines
during the 20 months of the survey period from January 2000 through August
2001. This translates to 113 encounters per 1,000 machines per month over
the entire survey period. More than 80 percent of those reporting a virus
disaster required 20 person-days or less to recover from their virus disasters.
The median response was four person-days for recovery. On average, this cost
between $5,500 (median) and $69,000 (average) in estimated direct costs.
Based on in-depth analysis of previous years' studies, there is thetendency
for respondents to underestimate these costs. When one compares in-depth
studies that include cost modeling and productivity analysis to these numbers,
one finds an approximate seven to eight-fold underestimation. With that proportional
underestimation in mind, one could extrapolate that the average company might
find cost between $50,000 and $500,000 in total ramifications (both soft
and hard costs) per year for virus disasters.
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The Architectural Impact on Performance: Antivirus Products for Lotus Notes |
In this white paper, the National Software Testing Laboratories examine
the architectures of Trend Micro's ScanMail for Lotus Notes version 1.5 and
Network Associates' GroupShield for Lotus Notes version 3.14, both running
under Windows NT. The examination, testing, and analyses focus specifically
on protection against viruses spread via electronic mail and the impact on
system performance of each product.
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Benefits and Considerations for a Single-Vendor Antivirus Strategy |
The world is a much smaller place than it was ten, five, even two years
ago. The virus outbreaks that occurred in 2001, which spread so quickly and
caused such damage to organizations around the globe, are an indication of
things to come. The lowered technical barriers needed to script such viruses
and malicious mobile code ensure that these types of outbreaks are likely
to keep recurring. Additionally, increased globalization coupled with the
use of email as a key communication tool makes understanding your security
options a vital concern.
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Email Content Security Management |
Email has revolutionized the way companies communicate both internally
and externally. However, with the widespread adoption of email, a new headache
has been created for corporate IT administrators which raises legal issues,
impacts network efficiency, and affects employee productivity. Customer demand
for secure content management products is exploding. They are looking for
an effective solution providing protection from virus attacks and malicious
code, while offering legal protection from employee violations of company
policy concerning prohibited materials, such as sexual, racial, hateful files.
Email content security is no longer just a matter of viruses protection.
Trend MicroŽ InterScanŽ Messaging Security is a high performance policy-based
antivirus and content security tool for the SMTP gateway designed to protect
the enterprise-messaging system from Internet-borne email viruses and prevent
transmission of SPAM or non-business related contents.
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