InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA)

Comprehensive gateway web security delivers lower costs, greater flexibility, and improved business continuity

InterScan  Web Security Virtual Appliance combines powerful URL filtering with dynamic web reputation, and award-winning malware protection at the web gateway—for a multi-layered, multi-threat defense. With broader web threat protection, you’ll dramatically reduce risk and productivity loss, alleviate the burden on endpoint security, and lower your TCO. Plus, as a software virtual appliance, it further reduces hardware and management costs and scales easily to meet future needs. When deployed with Trend Micro™ Advanced Reporting and Management, you gain instant visibility of Internet activity for on-the-spot remediation. As a complete, centrally-managed solution, it helps you stay ahead of web threats while reducing costs.   

Key Features

Web Reputation

• Provides zero-hour web threat protection with in-the-cloud analysis and real-time updates
• Blocks access to suspicious domains and protects HTTP and FTP traffic from new and emerging threats

Award-winning Antivirus and Antispyware

• Stops virus and spyware downloads, spyware phone home attempts, and malware tunneling
• Offers a real-time customer feedback mechanism that continually enhances Trend Micro’s in the cloud reputation database to protect users from emerging malware sources

Flexible URL and Applet Filtering

• Blocks access to malicious spyware and phishing-related websites
• Stops drive-by downloads by analysing and validating ActiveX and Java applets for threats
• Complements Web Reputation by categorising web pages for safe access
• Filters URLs against flexible policies to control employee access to inappropriate websites

Centralised Management

• Centralises the configuration and reporting of multiple instances of the software virtual appliance
• Fully supports Trend Micro Control Manager™, a web-based, cross-product management console accessible from anywhere on the network

Automatic Clean-up

• Integrates with Trend Micro™ Damage Cleanup Services to automatically remove threats on infected clients and servers upon detection of threat-related web activity

Flexible Deployment and Integration

• Supports multiple deployment modes, including Transparent Bridge, Forward Proxy, ICAP, WCCP, and Reverse Proxy for cost-effective scalability, performance, and reliability without the extra cost and complexity of adding external load balancers
• Supports SNMP, LDAP and Active Directory™ for tighter integration and lower cost of ownership

Increases application availability and improves business continuity

• Increases web security service levels with quick deployment of new capacity where needed
• Speeds recovery from unplanned outages with virtualization management tools

Optimizes existing server investment

• Increases utilization rates of existing servers and supports data center consolidation and standardization
• Simplifies infrastructure by eliminating proprietary, single-purpose hardware and the complexity of managing the OS/application stack
• Lowers capitalized hardware costs, greens IT, and reduces operating expenses of ongoing maintenance and deployment

Trend Micro IWSVA

Trend Micro Advanced Reporting Management

Appliance Platforms Certified by Trend Micro

Trend Micro certifies appliance hardware platforms for compatibility with Trend Micro software virtual appliance solutions through extensive testing and validation designed to improve support and reduce risk for customers.

System Requirements

Server Platform Compatibility
Virtual Appliances: Support VMware ESX v3.5
Software Appliances: For the latest Certified by Trend Micro platforms,
please see: http://www.trendmicro.com/go/certified

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• Single 2.0 GHz Intel™ Core2Duo™ 64-bit processor supporting Intel™ VT™ or equivalent
• 2GB RAM
• 8GB of disk space.

Recommended Hardware Requirements:

Up to 4000 users

• Dual 2.8 GHz Intel™ Core2Duo™ 64-bit processor or equivalent
• 4GB RAM is recommended to support up to 4000 users

Up to 8000 users

• Dual 3.0 GHz Intel™ QuadCore 64-bit processor or equivalent
• 8GB RAM is recommended to support up to 8000 users
• 300GB of disk space or more for log intensive environments. IWSVA automatically partitions the detected disk space as per recommended Linux practices