In my opinion, Trend Micro Web Security is one of the top web security tools. It stands out from its competitors like Cisco Umbrella because it features cloud app access control and flexible deployment options, and also has a single console. The solution succeeds at protecting your organization against cyber threats before they reach your users by using cross generational defense techniques to catch known and unknown threats. Furthermore, Trend Micro has two different services - basic and advanced - giving you the option to choose which one suits your organization’s goals the best.
Some of Trend Micro Web Security’s biggest advantages are:
- Easy to deploy: The Trend Micro Web Security solution is easy to set up and the deployment is straightforward.
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Stability and scalability: Trend Micro Web Security provides good stability and reliable scalability.
- Responsive technical support: With Trend Micro Web Security, the technical support is excellent. They are very knowledgeable, are quick to respond, and are always very helpful.
- Classifications: The solution has classifications to provide protection not only from a security point of view, but also from a GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) point of view.
- Application visibility and control: Trend Micro Web Security monitors and reports on more than 30,000 cloud applications and 1,000 internet protocols and applications, including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, social networking applications, and streaming media. It also provides granular policy creation to control all web activity.
- Cloud DLP (Data Loss Prevention): Trend Micro Web Security uses more than 240 global data loss prevention templates to safeguard your organization’s digital assets against accidental or deliberate leakage.
Besides having many advantages, Trend Micro Web Security also has some really amazing features, including:
- Advanced protection: Trend Micro Web Security can stop threats in the cloud before they reach endpoints and mobile devices. In addition, the solution protects users at any location, whether they are on or off the network. It uses a layered protection approach with pre-execution machine learning filtering of unknown malware before sandboxing.
- Cloud app access control and visibility: This great feature allows you to control and monitor cloud services access for your users. The solution is capable of identifying 30,000 unsanctioned cloud services and can execute the access policy set up by administrators. Furthermore, it blocks personal account access to popular sanctioned cloud services.
- Flexible deployment options: Trend Micro Web Security provides you with three deployment options, including on-premises proxy, cloud proxy, or both. If you select the cloud-based deployment option, you can eliminate expense and resource drain that is associated with backhauling traffic or managing separate or multiple on-premises secure web gateways. Hybrid deploys on-premises virtual appliances for large corporate sites while using cloud web gateway to secure the activity of smaller branch office and mobile users.
- URL filtering and categorization: Real-time URL categorization and reputation is used to identify inappropriate or malicious sites. In turn, this stops drive-by downloads and blocks access to spyware and phishing-related websites.
- Single, centralized management console: Trend Micro Web Security’s cloud-based management console enables you to monitor web use, even for on-premises gateways. The solution has a single pane of glass to help your organization manage centralized and unified policies. It also includes customizable and interactive dashboards as well as reports to give you full visibility of web usage and security information.
- Gateway anti-malware and HTTPS decryption: This feature prevents malware from entering your network, which helps to relieve the burden on endpoint security. It also helps stop virus and spyware downloads, botnets, malware callback attempts, and malware tunneling. In addition, the Trend Micro Web Security solution closes the HTTPS security loophole by decrypting and inspecting encrypted content.
- Web reputation with correlated threat data: Trend Micro Web Security was designed with web reputation technology to block access to websites containing malicious activity. The solution protects against new threats and suspicious activity in real time. It can also block botnet and targeted attack command and control (C&C) communications by using global and local threat intelligence.
- Cloud sandboxing and predictive machine learning: Cloud sandboxing provides automatic in-depth simulation and analysis of potentially malicious attachments, including executables and common office documents, in a secure Trend Micro-hosted sandbox environment. Machine learning and mathematical algorithms are used to act as an extra layer of scanning to filter unknown files before sending the suspicious files to the cloud sandbox. It increases efficiency and reduces false positives of cloud sandboxing.
Room for Improvement
While there are many great aspects to the Trend Micro Web Security, it does have some room for improvement.
- It would be nice to have the addition of a DDoS protection feature.
- It needs to be more comprehensive to meet the needs of large-sized companies.
- The performance could be better.
- The interface could be more user-friendly.
- Trend Micro lacks the pricing flexibility exhibited by most competitors.
Conclusion
Overall, I believe that Trend Micro Web Security is one of the best tools for my company’s business needs and requirements. The solution offers a lot of the essentials that we need. I also very much appreciate that the implementation and setup were straightforward and fast, and throughout the process I received plenty of support from the Trend Micro technical team.
For me, it is a great security virtual appliance, because it includes many features that I can use to customize my system security needs. It also provides easy integration with LDAP, SNMP, and active directory, which I find to be very useful. It gives me complete control over the internet usage that is being utilized by employees. It is definitely a stable end-to-end security solution. Besides all the aforementioned benefits, I also found the solution to be very easy to use. In summary, it delivers great security across multiple layers, including advanced detection capabilities, to keep up with the latest threats. I would not hesitate to recommend it.
