Trend Micro Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

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Jan 06, 2015, 08:07 ET

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.

About Gartner Magic Quadrant

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¹Gartner "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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