Trend Micro has announced the launch of the latest version of its InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance (IMSVA).

It has been newly built as a unique hybrid SaaS email security solution that integrates in-the-cloud protection and SaaS security services with an on-premise virtual appliance so email threats are stopped closest to their source without compromising email privacy while achieving significant management overhead, network bandwidth and data-center consolidation cost savings, said a statement.

“With 90 percent of all email being spam, it’s no wonder companies are struggling to keep up with the increasing volume of emails overloading their networks,” said Steve Quane, chief product officer, Trend Micro.

“Our next-generation IMSVA unifies the ‘best of both worlds’: As one part SaaS offering, it does all the heavy lifting of blocking spam outside of the enterprise’s network and reducing email volumes up to 90 percent so that less bandwidth, servers and staff are required; as another part on-premise VMware Ready virtual appliance, it allows companies to customise to best meet their enterprise needs while retaining control and privacy over their emails, especially protecting sensitive data from leaving the network,” he said.

IMSVA 8.0 is built as a hybrid offering to optimise the benefits of cloud security and virtual appliances, integrated into one solution. It builds upon Trend Micro’s extensive investment and expertise in SaaS and hosted security, as well as the company’s leadership status within reputation technologies, having since 2005 been  pioneering IP-filtering and IP-reputation technologies, he said.

This hybrid SaaS email security provides up-to-the-minute security powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure that scans, filters and correlates more than 20 billion emails, Web sites and files every day, and then leverages that data to rapidly identify and respond to emerging threats, and improve the existing response to known threats. – TradeArabia News Service