TrendMicro InterScan Messaging Security (IMSS) Technical Overview by E-SPIN

Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Messaging Security provides the most comprehensive protection against both traditional and targeted attacks. Using the correlated intelligence from Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ and optional sandbox execution analysis, it blocks spam, phishing, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The included hybrid SaaS deployment option combines a powerful gateway virtual appliance with a SaaS prefilter that stops majority of threats and spam in the cloud—closer to their source. This hybrid solution delivers the best of both worlds: the privacy and control of an on-premises appliance with an in-the-cloud pre-filter for resource efficiency and proactive protection. The Data Privacy and Encryption Module solves the toughest regulatory compliance and data protection challenges by securing outbound data. This optional module offers easy-to-use identity-based encryption and customizable data loss prevention (DLP) templates for quick deployment.

MAIL GATEWAY SECURITY

1. Protection Points
   • Messaging gateway
   • Inbound and outbound data
   • Internet cloud
2. Threat Protection
   • Targeted attacks
   • Ransomware
   • Compliance risks
   • Data loss
   • Inappropriate content
   • Malicious web links
   • Spear phishing
   • Spam and botnets
   • Spyware
   • Viruses

ADVANTAGES

• Protects organizations from APTs and other targeted attacks
• Minimizes targeted attacks with ScanMail™ multiple protections
• Performs execution analysis on your unique environment, and provides custom threat intelligence via Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Analyzer integration (optional)
• Detects spear phishing emails with Trend Micro Social Engineering Attack Protection
• Includes protection for Business Email Compromise (BEC), a popular new phishing technique mainly using executive spoofing
• Provides time-of-click protection against malicious URLs in email messages—rewrites and analyzes URLs at the time of click and blocks them if they are malicious
• Blocks more malware, phishing, and spam with reputation technology
• Drops up to 85 percent of all incoming email using email sender reputation to free network resources
• Stops more spam with fewer false positives than other security solutions according to independent tests
• Tags graymail messages such as bulk marketing newsletters for optional sorting
• Checks for malicious links within the email to block phishing attacks via enhanced web reputation
  Simplifies Data Protection and Encryption
• Makes securing outbound email to anyone easier through identity-based email encryption
• Eliminates pre-enrollment and certificate management of PKI encryption via dynamic key generation
• Simplifies regulatory compliance and data loss prevention with over 200 customizable DLP templates
• Reduces time management and speeds compliance audits using detailed reporting

 

Virtual Appliance

Operating System

• A standard CentOS™ Linux™ operating system is contained within InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance (IMSVA)

Hardware Requirements for Bare Metal Server

Recommended System Requirements

• 8-core Intel™ Xeon™ processor or equivalent
• 8 GB RAM
• 250 GB hard disk space or more. IMSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space based on recommended Linux practices
• Monitor that supports 800 x 600 resolution with 256 colors or higher

Minimum System Requirements

• Dual-core Intel Xeon processor or equivalent
• 4 GB RAM
• At least 120 GB hard disk space. IMSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space based on recommended Linux practices
• Monitor that supports 800 x 600 resolution with 256 colors or higher

System Requirements for Virtual Machines

Recommended Virtual Machine Requirements and System Settings

•  8-core Intel Xeon processor or equivalent
• 8 GB RAM
• 250 GB of disk space or more. IMSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space based on recommended Linux practices

Minimum Virtual Machine Requirements and System Settings

•  Dual-core Intel Xeon processor or equivalent
• 4 GB RAM
• 120 GB disk space. IMSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space based on recommended Linux practices

Platform support

• VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 3
• VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 6.0
• Microsoft™ Windows™ Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 with Hyper-V™
• Windows Sever 2012 with Hyper-V
• Windows Sever 2012 R2 with Hyper-V
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2

Software Deployment

• Microsoft™ Windows™, Linux™
• 2G RAM of memory
• 80 GB hard disk space – 500MB of disk space for installation and additional disk space needed for mail storage and database
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, 7, 8 or Firefox 3 or above
• LDAP Server Microsoft Active Directory 2000 or 2003, IBM Lotus Domino 6.0 or above, or Sun One LDAP
  Microsoft® Windows™
• Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2008 SP2, 2008 R2 SP1
• Windows Server 2003 SP2, 2003 R2 SP2
• Intel Dual Pentium 3GHz or higher
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or above, SQL Express 2008 or above Linux
• Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 or 6
• Intel Dual Pentium IV 3 GHz
• 2GB swap space
• PostgreSQL version 8.1.3 or above
• MTA Postfix 2.1 or above; Sendmail; Qmail

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