Trend Micro updates hosted email security platform

Trend's new hosted service goes live on 1 April

Trend Micro today announced a new version of its Hosted Email Security Platform, which is designed to deliver cost-effective protection against mail-borne threats and malware.

“Email security is mission-critical for our customers,” said Trend Micro small business product marketing manager, James Walker.

“Trend Micro’s new Hosted Email Security 2.0 ensures customers receive 100 per cent service uptime, effective spam blocking and zero email-based viruses. In addition, we’re including our leading anti-malware technology stopping malicious URLs embedded in emails.”

The hosted platform connects to Trend Micro’s Smart Protection Network infrastructure, which uses cloud-based technology to analyse and filter more than 20 billion emails, web sites and files every single day, alerting customers to known and emerging threats.

Pricing for the service, which goes live on 1 April, starts at $40 (£26) per user.

Experts estimate that moving to a hosted email security platform can bring significant savings.

“According to our email best practices benchmarking, adding in hosted email security will typically reduce the time that IT staff must spend on email security maintenance by up to 75 per cent (or more in some cases) versus continuing with on-premises email security only,” said Michael Osterman of Osterman Research.