Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has been named a leader,  in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2021 report. Trend Micro is a leader among the 15 evaluated vendors, scoring second highest in the Current Offering category and tying for the highest score in the Strategy category, two of the three main categories evaluated.

Email security is a key layer of security provided by Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform. At the heart of the platform is Trend Micro Vision One, which delivers visibility and XDR for faster detection of attacks, using telemetry from email security in addition to the other components of the platform including endpoint, servers, cloud workload and networks.

The Forrester report assessed that “Trend Micro delivers advanced, integrated email security” noting that “Enterprises seeking an email security solution with strong endpoint integration (especially for Trend Micro-protected endpoints) and [incident response]capabilities should evaluate Trend Micro.”

“Email is a preferred and an evolving mode of communication in the enterprise world, more so with remote working coming into existence, dependency on email as a tool has increased. The analysis of our email security solution is pivotal to our overall offerings” said Dr. Moataz Bin Ali, Trend Micro, VP & Managing Director, Trend Micro Middle East & North Africa. “In 2020 alone, 91% of threats blocked by Trend Micro were email borne. This makes it even more critical for us to continue innovating and investing in areas of email security to better safeguard enterprises across the region, and beyond.”

Trend Micro delivers a layered approach to email security to protect against simple phishing and spam as well as advanced targeted attacks, using pre-execution machine learning, macro analysis, exploit detection, and dynamic sandbox analysis for files and URLs. At a cloud application layer, Trend Micro also offers unique AI-powered writing style DNA capabilities to better spot BEC attacks, and computer vision technology to recognize and block phishing URLs.