Trend Micro Innovation Reinforces Cloud Security Market Leadership

[Taipei, December 16, 2015] Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in security software and solutions, announced today that it has been awarded “Security Innovation of Year 2015” by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) APAC, which recognizes the very best in the technology industry and rewards the leading organizations for innovation and performance in the cloud sector. Trend Micro was ranked top on the merits of its genuinely innovative approach to cloud security.

“As a pioneer in security technology and service innovation, we have been staying close to it as a core strength driving our success,” said Dhanya Thakkar, Managing Director of Asia Pacific, Trend Micro. “Innovation plays an especially important role today in the midst of rapid digital transformation, when the cybersecurity landscape is being fast reshaped. Each shift in the way people communicate and conduct business online has been and will continue introducing new security challenges. To protect enterprises against threats rising from emerging platforms like the cloud and IoT devices, we must continually invest in research and innovating our core technologies.”

Product Innovation
Its continuous and customer-centric innovation has led to Trend Micro’s launch of the award-winning Deep Security™ which won the “Best Cloud Security Solution” at the Cloud Asia Forum and Instant-On Cloud Security which unleashes the full benefits of the cloud's agility and cost savings on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, VMWare vCloud Air and other cloud providers, along with other new solutions spanning across mobile device management, mobile app reputation technology, data encryption, advanced threat detection and protection, and optimized security for virtualization and cloud environments.

Business Innovation
Trend Micro’s innovation focus is also reflected in its business strategies leading to a positive impact on its bottom line, which further enhances its market leadership in cloud security. Such business movement include the recent global agreement to expand its strategic alliance with VMware, which has helped customers to accelerate and maximize investment in VMware NSX™, and realize advanced security, speed, agility and operational efficiency with Deep Security™, and the recent integration of Deep Security TM into the Microsoft Azure Security Center, which benefits users with real-time malware detection and protection against both known and unknown vulnerabilities.

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About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in security software, strives to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Built on 26 years of experience, our solutions for consumers, businesses and governments provide layered data security to protect information on mobile devices, endpoints, gateways, servers and the cloud. Trend Micro enables the smart protection of information, with innovative security technology that is simple to deploy and manage, and fits an evolving ecosystem. All of our solutions are powered by cloud-based global threat intelligence, the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, and are supported by more than 1,200 threat experts around the globe. For more information, visit TrendMicro.com.

About the Cloud Security Alliance

The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, visit us at www.cloudsecurityalliance.org, and follow us on Twitter @cloudsa.