Trend Micro Helps IT Embrace Consumerization with New Enterprise Mobile Solution

Trend Micro Incorporated a global cloud security leader, is helping organizations embrace consumerization and unlock full business potential.  As personal and professional lives become more intertwined, employees are using their own consumer-grade tablets, smartphones and PCs for work - regardless of company policies.

The consumerization of IT carries with it a unparalleled blend of strategic and operational challenges. The lack of a planned approach to consumerization creates security risk, financial exposure and a management nightmare for IT. In spite of these risks, the consumerization of IT represents a great possibility for organizations of all sizes to drive increases in productivity, business agility, and customer and employee satisfaction.

Wide range of consumer-grade mobile devices

Trend Micro Mobile Security 7 for enterprises/businesses extends protection beyond traditional PCs to secure data on a wide range of consumer-grade mobile devices, just as Android™ devices, iPhones and iPads. With threat prevention, data protection, and mobile device management in accordance with a single point of control, Trend Micro Mobile Security 7 enables organizations to protect data, limit data loss incidents and reduce the operational costs of managing employee-owned mobile devices.

Mobile Device Management provides centralized enrollment, provisioning, and de-provisioning for network and application access, and critical visibility into devices and status, enabling IT administrators to take proactive control and reduce the cost of support.

Mobile Device Security provides malware protection leveraging cloud-based intelligence from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, firewall/IDS, call and message filtering and logging, and enforces passwords when powering-on the device.

Broad Platform Support supplies seamless cross-platform security, regardless of device form factor for: Android, iOS, Windows, and Symbian.

Strategic approach to consumerization

Trend Micro recommends companies take a strategic approach to consumerization by engaging executives and business units in the development of consumerization policies; having a plan that anyway you look at it defines which technologies are supported, versus which are tolerated or even prohibited; and deploying enterprise-grade infrastructure to address security and compliance, centralized management, and cost control.

Trend Micro Mobile Security 7 is available as a standalone solution for businesses, as plug-in for the Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ product, or as part of the following security suites: Trend Micro™ Enterprise Security for Endpoints Advanced, Trend Micro™ Enterprise Security for Endpoints & Mail Servers, Trend Micro™ Enterprise Security Suite.

Trend Micro Mobile Security 7 is available August 1, 2011, pricing varies by volume purchased, nevertheless cost per user is US$23.70 for 251 users. Trend Micro™ Mobile Security currently supports personal Windows, Symbian and Android devices.