Trend Micro Announces Deep Security 9

Trend Micro Incorporated announced Deep Security 9, the latest version of its comprehensive server security platform, which is designed to help organizations accelerate virtualization investments, minimize the effect of security, ensure cost-effective compliance, and move safely to the cloud.

According to the announcement, Deep Security "leverages both agentless and agent-based protection mechanisms to automatically and efficiently secure virtual servers and desktops, and private and public clouds and accelerate ROI." The product comprises anti-malware, web reputation, firewall, intrusion detection, integrity monitoring, and log inspection modules in one integrated solution. Deep Security 9 also enables compliance with many regulations, such as PCI DSS 2.0, HIPAA, NIST, and SAS 70.

Integration into vCloud Director and Amazon Web Services, as well as a unified management console, lets organizations extend their data center security to workloads in VMware vCloud and Amazon-based public clouds. Deep Security 9 will support VMware vSphere 5.1 and vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS).

Deep Security 9 will be available in the winter of 2012. Pricing is based on a per server model and depends on the number of modules licensed. For more information, please visit: http://www.trendmicro.com/us/enterprise/cloud-solutions/deep-security/index.html