 "Trend Micro Expands Smart Protection Network")
Trend Micro Inc., the cloud security service provider, has announced an expansion of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, the cloud-based security infrastructure introduced in 2008 that powers most of the company’s products and services. The latest iteration of the Smart Protection Network incorporates advanced big data analytic capabilities that enable Trend Micro to identify new security threats across a broader range of data sources, delivering global threat intelligence that stops threats even faster than before.
These capabilities, especially crucial in the era of mobility, cloud adoption, and advanced persistent threats and targeted attacks, have been integrated into the Smart Protection Network in order to tackle the dramatic volume, variety, and velocity of threats. With this announcement, the Smart Protection Network now includes newly added technologies, including mobile app reputation (for mobile threats), vulnerability rules (for vulnerability and exploits), network inspection rules (for network communications), and in-the-cloud whitelisting (for minimising false positives). These combine with the Smart Protection Network’s existing reputation technologies – Web reputation, Email reputation, and File reputation – to further Trend Micro’s global threat intelligence, one of the most comprehensive in the world.
It will also feature new, custom tools to correlate critical relationships among all the components of an attack, and model cybercriminal behaviour and the environments they work in to quickly determine whether something is good or bad. This modelling allows Trend Micro to proactively identify new threats from the data streams using behavioural-based identification methods. By correlating global threat intelligence across many threat vectors, Trend Micro delivers protection against the wide variety of attacks today.
It will also provide an evolved cloud infrastructure, allowing for a greater capacity to collect massive amounts of threat data without consuming bandwidth on customers’ networks and endpoints. Trend Micro was one of the first security companies to move beyond the conventional approach of resident protection and utilise the power of the cloud to block threats before they reach users. The Smart Protection Network provides automated protection through its cloud infrastructure enabling Trend Micro to protect customers across physical, mobile, virtual, and cloud environments.
With the introduction of the Smart Protection Network in 2008, Trend Micro marked a new approach to security where less reliance was placed on time-consuming pattern-downloads on the client, and more emphasis was placed on stopping threats at their source – in the cloud.
Today, the Smart Protection Network identifies and blocks over 200 million threats a day – that’s over 2300 threats per second. The cloud-based infrastructure, which identifies, correlates, and analyses new threats, is backed by research labs in 12 regions around the globe, and 1200 security experts worldwide working on surveillance and prevention.
Eva Chen, CEO, Trend Micro, said “Since the launch of the Smart Protection Network in 2008, the threat landscape has shifted to now focus on mobility and targeted attacks. Threats and cybercriminal attacks have taken on an unprecedented level of volume, variety, and velocity. These changes demand a smarter, accelerated approach to security so that our customers can confidently embrace the mobile device and cloud-era, knowing their data is protected, no matter where it resides.”