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Trend Micro ServerProtect

Score8.2 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is Trend Micro ServerProtect?

Trend Micro's ServerProtect is a malware and virus protection available for NAS storage devices, and other server systems.

Categories & Use Cases

Trend Micro ServerProtect- Protect Storage from Ransomware

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our client was facing Network threat issues like Ransomware &Trojan attack some of their servers also infected with WannaCry Ransomware. We discussed with various OEMs & suggest the client to go with Trend Micro ServerProtect, It protect their NAS (network attached storage) devices from EMC, Nutanix, HP, IBM etc. One of the challenge our client was facing that they were not able to get visibility of their storage devices as data centre has increased multiple times. Trend Micro ServerProtect you can get holistic view of security issues & by single console you can manage the integrated dashboard that includes reporting & altering capabilities to ensure you are aware in real time what happening in your environment.

Pros

  • Instant & complete visibility on your entire environment - as well as timely notification of any activities/events that are occurring
  • comprehensive & consistent reporting across channels makes it easier to manage-with customize dashboard
  • Dashboard provide visibility across environments physicals, virtual & cloud

Cons

  • Trend Miro ServerProtect required to improve to mange the logs collected from storage devices as some time false positives comes in picture .
  • Pricing is based on per user Or Terabytes Storage, but in-case client wants users based say 50 users that should be competitive rather than multiply by per users ,their should be Slab pricing .

Most Important Features

  • Reduce Administration cost through automation & central policy management
  • minimize manual tasks by automating routine anti virus scan maintenance & scan
  • Provide granular policy management & control

Return on Investment

  • Trend Micro server Protect Commercially viable & Technically scalable solution
  • One of the best product among its peers

Other Software Used

Fortinet FortiGate, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), Symantec Advanced Threat Protection

Trend Micro, an effective and lightweight AV agent, just beware of the Host Based implementation

Pros

  • It has been very effective at protection. Nothing has gotten by it in three years.
  • It's pretty easy to install in agent based mode.

Cons

  • We originally bought this to run at the hypervisor level. It did not work well.
  • I had constant issues with the VMs required to run at hypervisor level.

Return on Investment

  • Great protection. Has done a great job of reducing costs in time of dealing with outbreaks.
  • Management time is now very low.

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, Symantec Client Management Suite and Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)