KnowledgeCenter

Trend Micro partners with KnowledgeCenter to create secure email distribution

21 December, 2009, London, UK: Trend Micro™ has today announced that is has signed a partnership with KnowledgeCenter, one of the leading providers of Document Management and Business Process solutions for the insurance sector, to integrate Trend Micro's Email Encryption Gateway with KnowledgeCenter's electronic document management and business workflow solution, KCenter. The integration of Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway will provide a secure environment for email distribution.

In order to establish which security vendor's solutions would be most suitable for integration with KCenter, KnowledgeCenter assessed Trend's offering alongside competitor solutions. In terms of evaluation criteria, it reviewed each product for security robustness, ease of integration into KCenter, and the complexity of the user interface. The company concluded that Trend's Encryption Gateway offered the best combination of robust security, an intuitive user interface, and seamless integration with KCenter.

Kevin Osborn - Managing Director of KnowledgeCenter said:

"With the need to ensure the integrity of sensitive data at the heart of corporate concern within financial institutions particularly in the London Insurance Market, it is imperative that the senders and recipients of emails are assured that they are securely encrypted. Trend Micro's Email Encryption Gateway offered us the right balance. Product integration was straight forward, the client interface is extremely user friendly but most importantly the highest level of security is maintained for each and every e-mail processed. Trend Micro's best of breed approach to security ensures that KCenter users can be confident that their emails will only be read by those authorized to do so."

Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway provides policy-based encryption to protect intellectual property and to help achieve regulatory compliance. Enterprise gateway encryption augments email security by providing policy-based encryption and integration with messaging security infrastructure. The solution provides simple deployment and administration without altering existing business processes. When combined with content security, it enables enterprises to encrypt emails and attachments automatically, without having to rely on individual users to secure private information. Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway employs Trend Micro Private Post technology for Identity-based Encryption (IBE), an approach which eliminates pre-registration and the certificate management burden of PKI technology.

Robin Vann, senior director, xSP business development, EMEA, Trend Micro said:

"As a highly respected developer of Document Management and Business Process solutions globally for the insurance industry, KnowledgeCenter's decision to integrate email encryption security technology from Trend, is testimony to the superiority of our technology. The integration with KCenter will ensure that the security of their Clients confidential information is not compromised."