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Windows Dedicated Server Software: Anti-Virus & Software Firewall


Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ Anti-Spyware Suite is an integrated
client/server security solution that protects enterprise networks
from viruses, Trojans, worms, hackers, and network viruses, plus
spyware and blended threat attacks. The Web-based management console
provides real-time status to administrators and makes it easy to set
coordinated security policy and deploy automatic updates. With
support for Network Admission Control (NAC), it provides the most
effective way to enforce security policy within a Cisco™
Self-Defending Network. For networks without a NAC-enabled device,
security policy can be enforced through Trend Micro™ Network
VirusWall™
Integrated Virus and Spyware Protection
Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ Client/Server Edition blocks viruses, worms, Trojans,
hackers, and network viruses, plus inbound spyware and other forms of grayware—before
they can enter the network. As a single, integrated solution, it enables
administrators to set coordinated security policy—for a unified defense against
mixed threat attacks that blend spyware and virus tactics to propagate. Network
servers (including 32- and 64-bit Windows servers), corporate desktops, laptops,
and tablet PCs are more fully protected.
Enhanced Anti-Spyware Capabilities
OfficeScan protects against the wide variety of spyware, including adware,
dialers, joke programs, remote-access tools, and password cracking applications.
Using an extensive, up-to-date spyware database and customized exclusion lists,
it minimizes the risk of spyware-related slowdowns, crashes, and support calls.
It also prevents key loggers from stealing confidential information, preserves
bandwidth, and secures business productivity. These capabilities complement the
anti-spyware functionality in Trend Micro InterScan™ Web Security Suite—together
providing end-to-end spyware protection from the Web gateway to client/server
networks.
Centralized Management
A Web-based management console gives administrators transparent access to all
clients and servers on the network. It coordinates automatic deployment of
security policies, pattern files, and software updates on every client and
server. And with optional Trend Micro™ Outbreak Prevention Services, it shuts
down infection vectors and rapidly deploys attack-specific security policies to
prevent or contain outbreaks before pattern files are available. OfficeScan also
performs real-time monitoring, provides event notification, and delivers
comprehensive reporting. Administrators can perform remote administration, set
customized policy for individual desktops or groups, and lock client security
settings.
Trend Micro Outbreak Prevention Services
Trend Micro™ Outbreak Prevention Services help deliver outbreak prevention
policies that provide early warning to help IT managers prevent or contain
outbreaks before patches, pattern files, or network signatures are deployed.
Outbreak prevention policies can be deployed manually or automatically to block
virus carriers and prevent viruses from propagating and jamming networks. With
Outbreak Prevention Services IT managers can do the following:
- Download and deploy proactive, threat-specific policies that help them deflect, isolate, and stem outbreaks using attack management recommendations from TrendLabs
- Configure and centrally deploy outbreak prevention policies based upon high- or medium-risk profiles
- Automatically trigger Trend Micro™ Damage Cleanup Services to ease administrative burden
Security Policy Enforcement
OfficeScan provides seamless integration of the Cisco™ Trust Agent, enabling the
most effective policy enforcement within a Cisco Self-Defending Network. It also
includes a policy server for automated communication with Cisco Access Control
Servers. When integrated with Trend Micro™ Network VirusWall™ or any Network
Admission Control (NAC) device, it can check clients trying to enter the network
and then remedy, redirect, restrict, deny, or permit access. If a PC is
vulnerable or becomes infected, OfficeScan can automatically isolate it and its
network segments until all PCs are updated or cleanup is complete.
Enterprise Client Firewall
The Enterprise Client Firewall protects clients and servers on the network—using
stateful inspection, high performance network virus scanning, and elimination.
Through the central management console, rules can be created to filter
connections by IP address, port number, or protocol, and then applied to
different groups of users based on their profiles.
Trend Micro™ Damage Cleanup Services
With optional Trend Micro Damage Cleanup Services, OfficeScan cleans clients and
servers of file-based and network viruses plus virus and worm remnants (Trojans,
registry entries, viral files)—through a fully-automated process. It also
removes spyware and grayware running in memory or residing on disk, and it
allows administrators to choose which programs to detect and remove. OfficeScan
and Damage Cleanup Services are key components of Trend Micro™ Enterprise
Protection Strategy—designed to proactively manage the outbreak lifecycle—from
vulnerability prevention to malicious code elimination.
Detailed reports allow administrators to assess damage and pinpoint infected
local or remote clients for comprehensive cleanup. Damage Cleanup Services
reduces administrative burden with the following features:
- Automates cleanup of virus remnants, Trojans, and memory registries, including agentless remote cleanup of networked machines via Control Manager and agent-based cleanup of clients running OfficeScan
- Terminates virus processes and threads in memory, repairs the registry, removes any services and files dropped by viruses and restores any damaged files
- Eases administrative burden via intelligent collaboration with Outbreak Prevention Services
- Supports InterScan Web Security Suite with agent-less cleanup of spyware on infected machines upon detection of phone home attempts
- Generates graphical summaries and detailed administrative reports that show infection and clean up status enterprise-wide




