About Web Reputation

The Trend Micro Web Reputation (WR) technology joins its real-time visibility and control capabilities with CPM to prevent web-based malware from infecting your users’ computers. WR intercepts malware "in-the-cloud" before it reaches your users’ systems, reducing the need for resource-intensive threat scanning and clean-up. Specifically, WR monitors outbound web requests, stops web-based malware before it is delivered, and blocks users’ access to potentially malicious websites in real time.

Web Reputation requires no pattern updates. It checks for web threats when a user accesses the Internet by performing a lookup on an "in-the-cloud" database. Web Reputation uses the site’s "reputation" score and a security level set by the Console Operator to block access to suspicious sites. The Web Reputation database lookups are optimized to use very little bandwidth (similar in size to a DNS lookup) and have a negligible impact on network performance.