Mountain View, California – (Nov 5, 2002) – Nokia (NYSE:NOK), a global leader in best-of-breed, appliance-based IP network security systems, and Trend Micro (Nasdaq:TMIC; TSE:4704), a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security, today announced they intend to leverage their respective strengths to provide businesses with content security solutions designed to be robust, rapidly deployable, easily maintained and have unmatched performance.
“Trend Micro’s proven innovation and market leadership in antivirus and content security solutions brings an important strategic component to Nokia’s best-of-breed network security system approach,” said Dan MacDonald, vice president of product management and marketing, Nokia Internet Communications. “Together Nokia and Trend Micro will address the ubiquitous business problem of email borne exploits impacting overall network integrity, by delivering a unique system which offers key high value functions such as statistical protection, secure automatic updating, and unmatched throughput and reliability.”
The Nokia-Trend Micro purpose-built, secure content management system, Nokia Message Protector SC6600, aims to provide easy to deploy, defense-in-depth email protection through statistical virus protection, SPAM rejection and intelligent exploit rejection. The system is designed to ensure maximum integrity and uptime of the enterprise messaging infrastructure and internal tests show that it can scan more than 120,000 messages per hour. The Nokia Message Protector SC6600 will be exclusively available from Nokia and backed by its "First call, Final resolution" support network to ensure that customers have a single point of contact for all support issues.
“The Nokia-Trend Micro system roadmap represents a significant commitment by both companies to bring a wide range of capabilities to the enterprise in a very consumable, desirable format.” said David Rowe, executive vice president of marketing, Trend Micro. “For Trend Micro, this is a natural way to deliver our Enterprise Protection Strategy capabilities to the enterprise. Trend Micro has developed the Enterprise Protection Strategy to enable enterprises to get out in front of malicious outbreaks by creating a managed collaboration between our antivirus and content security products throughout the network. Our relationship with Nokia will make it easier than ever to deploy and use these capabilities.”
"This alliance combines the talents of Nokia and Trend Micro to offer an integrated hardware/software content management solution. This initial offering demonstrates key appliance benefits that can translate into strong total cost of ownership savings. The potential for cost reduction is further bolstered by Nokia’s single support and service approach," said Charles Kolodgy, IDC Research Manager.
About Nokia Internet Communications
Nokia Internet Communications, headquartered in Mountain View, California, provides world-class Network Security, Virtual Private Network and Internet Traffic Management solutions that ensure the security and reliability of corporate enterprise and managed service provider networks. Nokia is committed to enhancing the end user experience by bringing a new level of security and reliability to the network, enabling an Internet transaction that is personal and trusted -- each and every time. For more information, please visit http://www.nokia.com/ and click on Secure Network Solutions.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed broadband and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet, Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro, Inc. is a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. The Tokyo-based corporation has business units worldwide. Trend Micro products are sold through corporate and value-added resellers .For additional information and evaluation copies of all Trend Micro products, visit our website, www.trendmicro.com
For More Information: (Media and Industry Analysts Only Please)
Nokia Internet Communications:
Americas (California based)
Amy Grenier, Interactive Public Relations for Nokia Internet Communications
Tel. + 1 415 975 3354 or amy@ipri.com
EMEA (UK based)
Claire Backhurst
Tel. +44 7788 145460 or claire.backhurst@nokia.com
APAC (Singapore based)
Bonnie Datta
Tel. +6597389743 or bonnie.datta@nokia.com
www.nokia.com
Trend Micro:
North America
Barbara Woolf
Tel: +1 (408) 863-6528
email: barbara_woolf@trendmicro.com
Latin America
Todd Thiemann
Tel: +1 (408) 863-6566
Email: todd_thiemann@trendmicro.com
Europe
Anna Wright
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 400534
Email: anna_wright@trendmicro.co.uk
APAC
John De Riso
Tel: + 886 22 3378 9666 x378
Email: john_deriso@trend.com.tw
Japan
Naomi Ikenomoto
Tel: +81-3-5334-3658, Ext 8387
Email: ikenomoto_naomi@trendmicro.co.jp