In Trend Micro has announced a strategic partnership with Facebook to help educate and protect users digital life against malicious sites and malware.
Facebook will support integration of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure, which uses cloud technology, threat correlation, and a global network of threat intelligence sensors to proactively stop malware and web threats before they reach the computer. Facebook will utilize this technology to help block malicious links from their site.
When a Facebook user, on a Mac, PC or mobile device, clicks on links that have been passed to them or posted on their friends wall, that link will automatically (and behind the scenes) be first analysed by Trend Micros Smart Protection Network, which will performa real-time analysis of that URL and the content of that link to determine whether its safe or not. If that link is deemed unsafe, Trend Micro will warn the user that the link leads to malicious websites and malware sites. Now incorporated within Facebooks database of external malicious URL intelligence providers, the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network infrastructure delivers advanced protection from the cloud, blocking threats in real-time while processing more than 70billion URL, email, and file queries daily.
Trend Micro and Facebook will also be teaming up to promote and provide security education which will inform of the latest threat developments through on-going contributions to Facebooks Security page, e-guides, blog posts, quizzes, videos and more.
Now that Facebook is a primary platform for communication, whether youre nine or ninety-nine, its only become a bigger target for cybercriminals. This is why were thrilled to partner with Facebook to offer an additional layer of protection to users so they dont have to think twice when interacting with friends and uploading pictures from their weekend, said Suchita Vishnoi, Head Marketing, India & SAARC at Trend Micro.
According to Joe Sullivan, chief security officer at Facebook. This partnership will better enable us to protect the people who use our service, no matter where they are in the web."
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