Trend Micro Extends Innovative Threat Intelligence to HP ArcSight for Greater Visibility, Security in Datacenters and Clouds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HP Protect 2011 Conference -- Trend Micro Incorporated(TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the number one market leader in serverand virtualization securityand global sponsor of HP Protect 2011, today announced that HP ArcSight customers can now leverage the rich threat correlation and intelligence data derived from the 70 billion daily queries from more than 130 million users of the TrendMicro Smart Protection Network. Trend Micro threat intelligence and industry-leading security solutions deliver to HP ArcSight customers increased visibility and security for threats targeted at virtualized datacenters and cloud computing deployments.

The advanced threat correlation maintained in the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network global cloud security infrastructure complements the security intelligence and risk management solutions delivered by the HP ArcSight security information and event management (SIEM) platform. Customers benefit from improved security posture, real-time threat protection and increased visibility and correlation of incidents spanning physical, virtual and cloud environments. Most valuable to enterprises and governments is the improved ability to ensure continuity of compliance, regardless of the location of workloads and systems.  

Trend Micro enables security-related event information to be gathered from virtualized and cloud-located resources and made available to the HP ArcSight SIEM platform. Agentless and agent-based solutions deliver a wide range of protection from external and internal threats, while maintaining visibility of mobile workloads.

Supporting quotes:

Wael Mohamed, executive vice president of corporate strategy, Trend Micro
"In the face of Advanced Persistent Threats, our customers need to ensure visibility and security of their environments spanning physical, virtual and cloud. Integrating our security solutions with the ArcSight SIEM platform provides rich threat intelligence, advanced security and optimized resources for customers so that they can protect their investments and maintain the integrity of their compliance projects."  

Dan Barahona, vice president of business development, HP ArcSight
"Continuous compliance is top of mind for our customers. Enabling our market-leading SIEM platform to gain deeper access into virtualization and cloud environments through Trend Micro's leading security solutions will deliver increased value to our customers as they meet their consolidation objectives while maintaining compliance."

About the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network:
The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network uses a global network of threat intelligence sensors to continually update email, web, and file reputation databases in the cloud, identifying and blocking threats in real time before they reach customer networks and systems. Using Smart Feedback from products and services around the world, each discovery of a new threat and its origin instantly updates the Smart Protection Network. Global threat data continuously updated and correlated in the cloud ensures automatic protection from threats wherever and however you connect.

About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated  (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) a global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers.  A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro Smart Protection Network cloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.

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