DALLAS, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro
Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in security
software and solutions, today announced it has been positioned by
Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" portion of the Magic Quadrant for
Endpoint Protection Platforms1. Trend Micro has been
named a Leader in endpoint protection over a 13-year
span2 and improved its position this year in both
completeness of vision and ability to execute.
"We have made noteworthy investments and improvements to our
endpoint protection capability set, including application control,
advanced malware detection, sandboxing, and incident response,
while strengthening performance, flexibility and simplicity of
deployment and management," said Eric
Skinner, vice president, solutions marketing, Trend Micro.
"Driven by our new Smart Protection Suites, as well as Deep
Security™ and Deep Discovery™, we believe Trend Micro's position in
this report reinforces the strength and performance of our
multi-layered endpoint protection solution."
The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions technology vendors within
specific markets in four distinct groups: "Leaders," "Challengers,"
"Visionaries," and "Niche Players." According to the report,
"leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in all execution
and vision categories. Their capabilities in advanced malware
protection, data protection and/or management features raise the
competitive bar for all products in the market, and they can change
the course of the industry."
Trend Micro's endpoint solutions protect users and their
information across virtually every endpoint, server (physical or
virtual), as well as applications, integrating security across all
layers to reduce risk, protect business reputation and help ensure
compliance. In response to the increasingly complex threat
landscape, Trend Micro has created a solution that features
multiple layers that receive real-time global threat intelligence
to detect a broad range of threats faster, avoiding impact to user
productivity, and combined with breach detection investigation
tools.
To further enhance and simplify deployment and ongoing
management, the solution offers control and visibility to enable
interconnected threat response on different operating systems,
devices and applications, as well as flexible on-premise, cloud and
hybrid deployment models.
For more information about Trend Micro's Complete User
Protection solution and access to the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint
Protection Platforms report, visit
https://resources.trendmicro.com/2015-Q1-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-Update.html.
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 over
1,200 threat experts around the globe. For more information,
visit TrendMicro.com.
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1 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection
Platforms" by Peter Firstbrook,
John Girard, Neil MacDonald, December
22, 2014.
2 Previous titles of this report include the Magic
Quadrant for Enterprise Antivirus
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