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Trend Micro is moving further into the mobile space with the launch Monday of Mobile Security 7, targeted at partners who might use it to help businesses struggling to protect corporate data stored on Android and Apple’s iOS mobile devices.
Mobile Security 7 combines both security and management capabilities for a slew of new mobile devices, including Android, iPhones and iPads, touting threat prevention, data protection and mobile device management operated by a single console.
The offering was coupled with the release of a Trend Micro study of the consumerization of IT, which found that almost two-thirds of organizations allow employees to use personal mobile smartphones and tablets for business functions.
“There are challenges to consumerization that expose organizations to greater risk," said Patrick Wheeler, Trend Micro, senior product marketing manager for mobile device management. “These devices are like unprotected PCs. Why would I lower the bar? You have full browsers, word processing tools, spreadsheets, collaborative tools—we’d be crazy not to try to secure them. That’s the approach that we take.”
Mobile Security 7 isn’t the first product of its kind for the Tokyo-based security company. Trend Micro first launched its Mobile Security version 1.0 in December 2004 as a free download, which initially offered protections for the Symbian operating system.
The most recent version 7 now incorporates protections for Android, with capabilities around BlackBerry and iOS coming out later this year, and comes equipped with expanded data protection and security features, including power-on-password enforcement and device security event notification.
Stephen Nacci, regional account manager at Everything Maintenance, a division of TLIC Worldwide, based in Exeter, R.I., said that the Trend Micro mobile offering comes at a good time as he sees customers struggle to deal with a growing number of disparate mobile devices. As such, it will likely provide a much-needed value add for their business in a rapidly growing space, he said.
”Because so many customers right now are very aware of mobility and its use, being able to tell them today that we have them covered is a great boost for our overall practice,” Nacci said, adding that down the road, the mobile security offering could be used as an integral part of a niche vertical practice.
“There are also a lot of niches that are actually pretty big: for instance, health care and their adoption of mobile devices for use by patient care professionals,” he said.
Wheeler said that while many of the mobility offerings focus on management, Trend Micro’s new offering in particular focuses on security with an array of features dedicated to protecting mobile devices used in the workplace.
“Most of what you hear in the industry is about mobile device management,” Wheeler said. “But protecting data is the next big challenge. As much as you think your iPhone is physically attached to you, it's not.”
Specifically, the mobile security product incorporates malware protection and intelligence infrastructure, firewall/IDS call and message filtering and logging and password enforcement.
In addition, Mobile Security 7 features centralized device management, which includes enrollment, provisioning and de-provisioning, as well as data protection for mobile devices, along with enhanced visibility into devices and status. It also comes equipped with data protection capabilities, which enables remote device lock and wipe of corporate data if the device is lost or stolen.
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