Main Mobile Device Agent Features Parent topic

Feature Name
Description
Anti-Malware Scanning
Mobile Security incorporates Trend Micro’s anti-malware technology to effectively detect threats to prevent attackers from taking advantage of vulnerabilities on mobile devices. Mobile Security is specially designed to scan for mobile threats and enables you to quarantine and delete infected files.
Web Security
As technology increases for mobile devices, the sophistication of mobile threats is also increasing. Trend Micro Mobile Security provides Web Reputation and Parental Controls to protect your mobile device from unsafe Web sites and the Web sites that may contain objectionable material for children, teenagers and other family members. You can modify your Web Reputation and Parental Controls setting levels as per your desired settings. Mobile Security also maintains the log of the Web sites that were blocked by Web Reputation or Parental Controls in their specific logs.
SMS Anti-Spam
Mobile devices often receive unwanted messages or spam through SMS messaging. To filter unwanted SMS messages into a spam folder, you can specify the phone numbers from which all SMS messages will be considered spam or you can specify a list of approved phone numbers and configure Mobile Security to filter all messages from senders that are not in the approved list. You can also filter unidentified SMS messages or messages without sender numbers. Your mobile device will automatically store these messages to the spam folder in your inbox.
Note
Note
The SMS Anti-Spam feature is not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities.
Call Filtering
Mobile Security enables you to filter incoming or outgoing calls from the server. You can configure Mobile Security to block incoming calls from certain phone numbers or you can specify a list of approved phone numbers to which the calls may be made from the mobile device. Mobile Security also enables mobile device users to specify their own Blocked or Approved list to filter unwanted incoming calls.
Note
Note
The Call Filtering feature is not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities.
WAP-Push Protection
WAP-Push is a powerful method of delivering content to mobile devices automatically. To initiate the delivery of content, special messages called WAP-Push messages are sent to users. These messages typically contain information about the content and serve as a method by which users can accept or refuse the content.
Malicious users have been known to send out inaccurate or uninformative WAP-Push messages to trick users into accepting content that can include unwanted applications, system settings, and even malware. Mobile Security lets you use a list of trusted senders to filter WAP-Push messages and prevent unwanted content from reaching mobile devices.
The WAP-Push protection feature is not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities.
Authentication
After installing the Mobile Device Agent a mobile device is associated with a user. The user must type a password (also known as the power-on password) to log on to the mobile device.
Data Encryption
Mobile Security provides dynamic data encryption for data stored on mobile devices and memory cards. You can specify the type of data to be encrypted and the encryption algorithm to use.
Regular Updates
To protect against the most current threats, you can either update Mobile Security manually or configure it to update automatically. To save cost, you can also set a different update frequency for the mobile devices that are in roaming. Updates include component updates and Mobile Security program patch updates.
Firewall (BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile only)
Mobile Security includes the Trend Micro firewall module, which comes with predefined security levels to filter network traffic. You can also define your own filtering rules and filter network traffic from specific IP addresses and on specific ports. The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) enables you to prevent attempts to continually send multiple packets to mobile devices. Such attempts typically constitute a Denial of Service (DoS) attack and can render your mobile device too busy to accept other connections.
Logs
The following Mobile Device Agent logs are available on the Management Server:
  • malware protection log
  • Web threat protection log
  • encryption log
  • firewall log
  • event log
  • violation log
You can view the following logs on mobile devices:
  • Windows Mobile and Symbian:
    • virus/malware logs
    • firewall logs
    • SMS anti-spam logs
    • WAP Push protection logs
    • task logs
  • Android:
    • malware scan history
    • privacy scan history
    • Web blocking history
    • call blocking history
    • text blocking history
    • update history