After Trend Micro conducted a battery of customer assessment trials (about a hundred in total) globally, the company discovered that a whopping 100% of corporations studied had undetected malware in some form or the other. This, among many other factors, prompted them to announce the upcoming release of Threat Management Services that will address this virtual epidemic and provide an early warning alert system, malware containment, and system remediation services in three packages.

The discovery does beg the question of why malware continues to breach a lot of business networks, especially when one considers the leaps and bounds that anti-malware technology has acquired. Part of the reason lies with the fact that the Internet is an effective medium for providing critical information about anyone who uses it, especially commercial companies who specifically utilize it to advertise themselves. What's more, security infrastructure bugs usually pop up whenever mobile users connect to a network with vulnerable devices.

The knowledge that hackers can easily glean from a corporate website and the numerous avenues of entry that they can easily take advantage of (i.e., unprotected technologies that continue to spread in today's organizations like instant messaging or file sharing on unpatched legacy systems and exploitable laptops) allow them to spread their malicious code almost at will.

At any rate, the three Threat Management Packages below should provide a satisfactory collection of detection and advisory tools to help you combat this growing online plague. They include:

•    Threat Discovery: This allows your IT department to recognize, scrutinize, and alleviate enterprise-wide safety issues that may include possible malware access points, risky practices and behaviors, and various events that expose the network to online threats.

•    Threat Remediation: This service employs the help of Trend Micro's experts and advisors to optimize its remediation consultative services for information-pilfering malware, comprehensive early warning alerts, 24/7 monitoring, and many other threat discovery features.

•    Threat Lifecycle Management: This is the most complete package among the three. It features all the services found in the other two packages, and improves on them by including root-cause analysis and automated threat remediation as well as security development assistance from the aforementioned experts and advisors.

In conclusion, all three of the packages are developed to enhance and cooperate with available security systems that will unavoidably have security holes exploited by clandestine, zero-day hazards.