Trend Micro Teams With Interwork Technologies to Bring Enterprise Antivirus and Content Filtering Products to the Canadian Channel

Business Wire, Jan 11, 1999

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999--

Antivirus is moving beyond the desktop -

Trend Micro and Interwork Technologies deliver a

`Top Down Approach' to the Canadian market

Trend Micro, the leading provider of centrally managed virus protection and content filtering products and services, and Interwork Technologies are pleased to announce the addition of Trend Micro's suite of server-based antivirus and content-filtering software for the enterprise to Interwork Technologies' portfolio. Interwork is a premier Canadian distributor for Trend Micro's award winning products.

Traditionally, virus protection has been tackled from the desktop up, a time-consuming and expensive endeavor requiring the constant vigilance of IS staff. This agreement enables Interwork to offer VARs, Systems Integrators and Resellers a lucrative opportunity to sell Trend's solutions, delivering virus and other malicious code and content protection from the top down with a range of second-generation solutions deployed through central servers directly to the desktop.

Trend Micro's integrated family of protection products covers every access point: Internet gateways, groupware, e-mail, Intranet servers, LAN servers, and desktops. InterScan(R) VirusWall(R), Trend's flagship second-generation, high-performance antivirus solution protects SMTP, HTTP, and FTP traffic. InterScan VirusWall established the gateway protection category and, despite imitators, is still the leader in this category today.

Most recently, in December 1998, Trend Micro announced their newest product - InterScan AppletTrap(TM) - which stops malicious Java applets, JavaScript, and ActiveX objects at the Internet gateway and solves the performance and management issues that have hindered competing approaches.

"We are very excited to offer Trend Micro's products to the Canadian channel," said Blair Baxter, president of Interwork Technologies. "Internet and virus security threats are increasingly hostile and complex. Organizations today are demanding products with an enterprise focus that can be easily and centrally managed. Interwork feels that Trend Micro's vision and product strategy will quickly position them as a Canadian leader in this market."

"We are extremely pleased to have Interwork Technologies as our Canadian value-added Distributor," said David Kimball, director of eastern region sales for Trend Micro. "Interwork's expertise in the connectivity, network management and security markets ideally positions them to aid in developing and supporting a very successful and profitable reseller channel in Canada."

Interwork Technologies Inc. is a specialty distributor of software products for Internet/Intranet connectivity, network and asset management and security. They are experts on product solutions for connecting, managing and securing PCs, UNIX and NT servers as well as DEC, HP and IBM mid-range and mainframe systems. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Interwork has been providing solutions to Systems Integrators and Resellers for the past eight years. For more information please visit www.interwork.com or call one of our specialists at 1-800-461-8649.

Trend Micro provides centrally controlled server-based virus protection and content-filtering products and services. By protecting information that flows through file servers, e-mail servers and Internet gateways, Trend Micro allows companies worldwide to stop viruses and other malicious code from a central point before they ever reach the desktop.

Trend Micro's award-winning products have been chosen by Check Point, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lotus Softswitch, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Wingra and WorldTalk as a key part of their server security solutions. Trend Micro can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.antivirus.com.

Trend Micro is publicly held in Japan with North American headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and offices worldwide.

InterScan and VirusWall are trademarks of Trend Micro Incorporated. Other product and company names smay be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.