Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ includes the following new features and enhancements:
Smart scan moves security capabilities from the endpoint to the cloud. An integral part of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, smart scan provides the following benefits:
Provides fast, real-time security status lookup capabilities in the cloud
Reduces the overall time it takes to deliver protection against emerging threats
Reduces network bandwidth consumed during pattern updates. The bulk of pattern definition updates only need to be delivered to the cloud and not to many endpoints.
Reduces the cost and overhead associated with corporate-wide pattern deployments
Lowers kernel memory consumption on endpoints. Consumption increases minimally over time.
For smart scan deployment information, refer to the Trend Micro Smart Scan for OfficeScan Getting Started Guide.
OfficeScan leverages Microsoft™ Active Directory™ services to enforce security compliance within the organization. By polling Active Directory regularly, OfficeScan can detect computers without security software and install the client to the computer. OfficeScan also allows you to assign Web console access privileges to users by using their Active Directory accounts.
See the following topics for details:
Role-based administration lets you delegate Web console management tasks to other administrators and allows non-administrators to view Web console items. Start by creating user roles with certain access privileges to OfficeScan Web console functions and then assign these roles to users. Manage users by creating custom user accounts or using existing Active Directory accounts.
Single sign-on support enables users to log on to the OfficeScan Web console from Trend Micro Control Manager™.
See Role-based Administration for details.
Behavior monitoring controls access to external storage devices and network resources, regulating potential avenues for data leakage or malware infection. Behavior monitoring also enhances endpoint protection by keeping security-related processes always up and running, and protecting OfficeScan client files and registry keys.
Behavior monitoring offers the following features:
This product release supports server and client installations on Windows Server™ 2008 and virtualization applications such as VMware™.
See Installation Requirements for a list of client installation requirements and the Installation and Upgrade Guide for a list of server installation requirements.
This product release includes the following enhancements:
Performance Control
Performance Control allows efficient use of CPU resources by performing the following during scanning:
Checks the CPU usage level configured on the OfficeScan Web console and the actual CPU consumption on the computer
Adjusts the scanning speed if:
The CPU usage level is Medium or Low
Actual CPU consumption exceeds a certain threshold
For details, see CPU Usage.
Scheduled Scan enhancements
Users with the scheduled scan privileges can postpone, skip, and stop Scheduled Scan. For details, see Scheduled Scan Privileges.
Granular Web reputation settings
Configure Web reputation policies and assign them to one, several, or all OfficeScan clients. See Web Reputation Policies for details.