Trend Micro to sell enterprise anti-spyware

Security vendor Trend Micro on Monday was set to announce its first antispyware product designed for enterprise users. The new product, called Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition, incorporates software the company picked up in its May 2005 acquisition of InterMute and is one of multiple product announcements that Trend Micro plans to make Monday.

The new enterprise antispyware product will give security administrators more detailed control over security settings than Trend Micro’s existing antispyware offerings, and it will be able to automatically discover and then “silently” deliver software to desktops without disturbing desktop users, said Bob Hansmann, a senior product marketing manager with Trend Micro.

Trend Micro has integrated the InterMute CWShredder software into this product, which makes it particularly effective at detecting the CoolWebSearch spyware variants. Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition has also been designed to work with other desktop security products, so users can adopt the product without necessarily using Trend Micro’s antivirus products, Hansmann said.

Also expected Monday is an update of the company’s PC-cillin Internet Security suite and an updated 3.0 version of the company’s Client Server Security and Client Server Messaging Security products for small and medium-size businesses.

PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 will include new antiphishing features as well as improved antivirus, antispyware, and home network protection, Trend Micro said.

A one-year subscription to Anti-Spyware Enterprise Edition is priced at $11.55 per user for corporations with more than 500 users. Pricing for PC-cillin will remain unchanged at $49.95, with at $24.95 renewal price. Both products will be available as of Monday.

Client Server Security for SMB 3.0 will begin shipping in November, priced at $23.63 per user per year. Client Server Messaging Security, which includes antispam and antiphishing software, is priced at $45.15 per user per year. Trend Micro expects to begin shipping the new Client Server Security products some time in November.