Trend Micro: Safeguarding from Stealthy Attacks

While one of the critical lessons of the pandemic is that some of the best cyber teams can pivot quickly to enable their organizations to work safely and remotely, a broader aspect is that it has also forced organizations to rethink how they engage with and serve their customers in a digital-first environment. This shift in mindset has led to fast digital transformation, which has helped customers move at the pace of business securely. Trend Micro, a cybersecurity provider, helps make the world safer for exchanging digital information. Powered by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects many organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. The platform delivers a powerful range of innovative threat defence techniques optimized for environments like Microsoft, AWS and Google and central visibility for better detection and response.

Trendmicro helps its users to detect and respond to targeted attacks moving inbound, outbound, and laterally. Today, organizations face more stealthy targeted attacks in their networks than ever. These attacks are composed to leverage intellectual property and customer information or to encrypt essential data for ransom. Trend Micro’s Deep Discovery is a solution that protects against advanced threats, targeted attacks, and ransomware, giving users the power to analyze, detect, and respond to stealthy attacks in real time.

A single solution and console don’t have to mean a single set of security capabilities across the endpoint environment. The Trend Micro Cloud One is created with separate, optimized service options to get the best of both worlds. Users get increased visibility and consistent security throughout the hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with complete security controls and integration with the existing development and operations toolsets.

Trend Micro Cloud One automates the discovery and protection of public and private clouds. Combining workload and network layer protection offers flexibility and simplifies the security throughout the cloud migration processes. Another solution, Deep Discovery Inspector, is a network appliance that monitors all ports to discover modern threats and targeted attacks moving in and out of the network. It also monitors over 105 different network protocols. It detects and analyses malware, command-and-control communications, and evasive attacker activities that are invisible to standard security defenses.

Recently, Trendmicro was featured in the news for its exceptional attack protection. The Trend Micro Vision One platform swiftly detected 96% of attack steps from the simulation that mimicked the behavior of two infamous APT groups. “Security has been about spotting the tools used in an attack: MITRE Engenuity adds the dimension of recognizing rather the patterns of an attacker, no matter when different tools are used,” says Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity for Trend Micro. “MITRE ATT&CK is, like the attacks it models, complex. Doing well on a third-party test like this is satisfying – and with 96% visibility, we did very well here – especially considering it models techniques used by two of the world’s most capable threat groups. An even bigger success is helping educate organizations that ATT&CK isn’t just about the test but that ATT&CK can be a part of the everyday playbook for SOCs, reflected in our solutions,” he added.

Trend Micro is one of only three vendors to be named a leader and received 5 out of 5 scores in investigation capabilities, ATT&CK alignment, extended capabilities, and innovation roadmap, among other criteria. The CSR part is going strong at Trend Micro. Since 2008 they have targeted 1% of the previous year’s post-GAAP profit to fund their Global Citizenship programs. Today, one-quarter of all Trenders participate in Give and Match programs supporting community efforts from Texas, to Ottawa, to the Philippines.