Web Reputation Services (WRS) scrutinizes URLs before users access potentially dangerous websites, especially sites known to be phishing or pharming sites. Employing WRS, Deep Edge provides real-time protection, conserves system scanning resources, and saves network bandwidth by preventing the infection chain or breaking it early. Web Reputation technology guards end-users against emerging web threats. Because a Web Reputation query returns URL category information (used by URL filtering), Deep Edge does not use a locally-stored, URL database.

Web Reputation technology also assigns reputation scores to URLs. For each accessed URL, Deep Edge queries Web Reputation for a reputation score and then takes the necessary action, based on whether this score is below or above the user-specified sensitivity level. With Trend Micro Web Reputation technology (part of the Smart Protection Network), Deep Edge can perform website scanning at varying protection levels (low, medium, and high).

Deep Edge provides anti-phishing and anti-pharming protection through Web Reputation, if it is enabled.

WRS profiles can be applied to any policy. It is safe to disable any unused WRS profile.

The web reputation database resides on a remote server. When a user attempts to access a URL, Deep Edge retrieves information about this URL from the web reputation database and stores it in the local cache. Having the web reputation database on a remote server and building the local cache with this database information reduces the overhead on Deep Edge and improves performance.

The web reputation database is updated with the latest security information about web pages. If the reputation of a URL seems misclassified or to discover the reputation of a URL, visit: http://global.sitesafety.trendmicro.com/