Hitachi Chooses Trend Micro to Protect Lotus Notes Users From Internet Viruses

Business Wire, Oct 4, 2000

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Japanese ASP Integrates Trend Micro's Antivirus Technology With

Network-hosted Lotus Notes-based Applications

Trend Micro (TSE 4704) (Nasdaq:TMIC), a leading provider of enterprise antivirus and Internet security software, has teamed up with Hitachi to protect customers of Hitachi's hosted Lotus Notes groupware applications from potentially destructive computer viruses.

ApinetLand, a Japanese application service provider (ASP) set up by Hitachi earlier this year, has incorporated Trend Micro's ScanMail(R) for Lotus Notes(R) software into its two major Notes-based services: Notes ASP, a hosted groupware application for small and medium enterprises; and Class de Net, an information communication service for schools. Both Notes ASP and Class de Net launched successfully in July, enhanced by virus protection from ScanMail. Trend Micro has agreed to carry out joint marketing activities and develop additional security services for customers of the service provider.

The deal makes the Hitachi affiliate a new member of Trend Micro's eDoctor(tm) Global Network, a group of managed service providers who partner with Trend Micro to provide value-added antivirus and content security services to their customers through the Net. The leading ISPs, ASPs and telcos which make up the eDoctor initiative are building Trend Micro's malicious code protection into the infrastructure of the Internet itself, where it can stop hostile code before it ever penetrates a customer's network or reaches a desktop.

"In the past year or so, we've seen a dramatic increase in the number of viruses being transmitted as email attachments, which can be saved and replicated in Notes databases through the actions of unsuspecting users," said Bernie Wu, vice president of Trend Micro. "By integrating Trend Micro's technology with hosted applications, organizations such as Hitachi can provide their customers with effective protection against virus attacks."

"Trend Micro's technology greatly compliments our hosted solutions, as it is clearly the leader in virus protection for Notes and Domino environments," said Ikuyoshi Masuki, General Manager of Partner Business Development for Hitachi's Information & Telecommunication Systems Group. "And our customers don't have to worry about continually updating their own virus protection programs, because Trend Micro's software is automatically updated on our network."

About ScanMail for Lotus Notes(tm)

ScanMail for Lotus Notes and Domino stops viruses from using the Notes environment as a distribution mechanism. It detects and removes viruses hidden in databases and email attachments in real time, before they can reach the desktop. ScanMail is the only antivirus support for Lotus Domino available across the Windows NT, IBM AS/400 and S/390, AIX and Sun Solaris platforms. In August 2000, ScanMail for Lotus Notes v.2.0 earned ICSA Anti-Virus Certification for Notes, after passing tests of its ability to detect 100% of "in the wild" viruses in On-Access and On-Demand conditions.

About Trend Micro, Inc.

Trend Micro provides centrally controlled server-based virus protection and content-filtering products and services. By protecting information that flows through Internet gateways, email servers and file servers, Trend Micro allows companies and service providers to stop viruses and other malicious code from a central point before they ever reach the desktop. Trend Micro's corporate headquarters is located in Tokyo, Japan, with business units in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its North American headquarters is located in Cupertino, CA. Trend Micro's products are sold directly and through a network of corporate, value-added resellers and managed service providers. Evaluation copies of Trend Micro products may be downloaded from its award-winning web site, http://www.antivirus.com.

About ApinetLand and Hitachi, Ltd.

ApinetLand is an application service provider launched by Hitachi in April 2000 to target the small and medium enterprise market in Japan. In July, ApinetLand launched Notes ASP groupware service, and Class de Net, a communications application for schools. The ASP's Japanese language web site can be found at http://www.apinetland.ne.jp.

Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies, with fiscal 1999 (ended March 31, 2000) consolidated sales of 8,001 billion yen ($75.5 billion(a)). The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. For more information on Hitachi, Ltd., please visit its web site at http://www.hitachi.co.jp or the group's global web site at http://global.hitachi.com

(a) At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the dollar.