The following describes the major features of the Mobile Device Agent.
Mobile Security incorporates Trend Micro 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.
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 block attempts to continually send multiple packets to your mobile devices. Such attempts typically constitute a Denial of Service (DoS) attack and can render your device too busy to accept other connections.
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.
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. Mobile Device Agent will automatically store these messages to a spam folder in your device inbox.
The SMS Anti-Spam feature is not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities.
Application control policies provide you server-side control of the applications installed on mobile devices and push the required applications to the mobile devices. Application control policies also enable you to allow or block the installation of certain applications on mobile devices using approved and blocked lists.
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.
The Call Filtering feature is not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities.
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 and SMS anti-spam features are not available on mobile devices without phone capabilities. You cannot configure these settings for Mobile Device Agents from the Mobile Security Management Module. Users can enable or disable this feature on their mobile devices.
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.
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.
To protect against the most current threats, you can either update Mobile Security manually or configure it to update automatically. Updates include component updates and Mobile Security program patch updates.
The following mobile device logs are available on the Mobile Security Management Module:
Malware protection logs
Web threat protection logs
firewall logs
encryption logs
event logs
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 logs
Web Security logs
blocked Message logs
call filtering logs
system logs