St. Lawrence College and Trend Micro--Real World Solutions

By Stephanie Jordan
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With more than 800 employees and 6,500 full-time students, St. Lawrence College relies on its robust, technology-rich infrastructure. IT has deployed and managed a variety of technology solutions over the years, striving to create a productive environment for the college community. As part of a major technology refresh initiative, St. Lawrence College underwent an evaluation of Trend Micro Enterprise Security solutions. The study convinced IT to switch from their previous vendor to Trend Micro.  

“Fighting Web threats is a priority for us,” says Michael Zeleny, technical support specialist for the college. “Students love to surf the Web—being able to detect malware and threats faster is always desirable. Trend Micro OfficeScan Client-Server Suite gives us Web and file reputation technology that blocks threats before they hit our network, and the Smart Scan Server feature makes new patterns available immediately, without waiting for updates to be pushed down to every endpoint.”

St. Lawrence College now implements Trend Micro Enterprise Security to protect endpoints with Trend Micro OfficeScan Client-Server Suite and to protect messaging for the gateway with Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Virtual Appliance.

“Trend Micro messaging security and our virtualized environment have reduced the CPU and memory requirements for security while increasing the spam catch rates and overall protection,” said Zeleny. “The in-the-cloud reputation services detect threats faster, help to mitigate them more quickly, and also reduce the time and resources consumed for updates. It’s really nice to see Trend Micro moving in this direction. With Trend Micro we gained a multilayered spam solution, Web threat protection, and a security vendor that was aligned with our commitment to virtualization.”

 

Published March 11, 2010