Trend Micro Receives U.S. Army Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) for Trend Micro Deep Security

Trend Micro's market-leading agentless security platform now available to the U.S. Army.

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Aug 21, 2012, 09:00 ET

CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Inc. (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704) the global leader in cloud security, today announced that its flagship agentless server security platform, Trend Micro Deep Security, has been awarded the Certificate of Networthiness by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM). The CoN accreditation confirms that Deep Security meets strict U.S. Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network standards for security, compatibility, supportability, and sustainability. These standards apply to the entire U.S. Army, Army Reserve and the National Guard.

Trend Micro™ Deep Security™, the industry's first agentless security platform, also delivers comprehensive, adaptive, highly efficient agent-based protection, including anti-malware, web reputation, intrusion prevention, firewall, integrity monitoring, and log inspection.

"With this new certification, Deep Security can now protect the U.S. Army networks from data breaches and disruptions without emergency patching," said Partha Panda, vice president of business development, Trend Micro. "Deep Security is designed to simplify security operations while enabling regulatory compliance, continuous monitoring, and accelerating the ROI of virtualization and cloud projects. This new accreditation expands Deep Security's already impressive portfolio of key certifications and alliances. It demonstrates Trend Micro's commitment to making certain our products meet the stringent standards of the U.S. federal government."

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Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), the 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.

In recognition of its leadership in virtualization security, Trend Micro was named VMware's Technology Alliance Partner of the Year in 2011 and the recipient of the first Cloud Security Alliance Industry Leadership Award in 2012

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