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Global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro announced the launch of its Cloud One regional datacentre in Canada to help its Canadian clients uphold data residency, safeguard data privacy and reduce the risk of a security breach. 

Most IT teams believe that working from home has become a “ticking time bomb” that might lead to a corporate network breach, according to a recent survey from HP Inc. This finding was in line with a survey from global cybersecurity company Trend Micro that found 84% of North American companies polled expect a data breach of customer records within the next 12 months compared to 74% last year. 

Carleton University is partnering with some of Ottawa’s leading tech firms on a new initiative aimed at closing the gender gap in fields such as science, technology, engineering and math. Trend Micro is one of them and  Adam Boyle, vice-president of hybrid cloud security is quoted.

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, and Carleton University have partnered to support more women pursuing careers in STEM through the Women in Engineering and Information Technology (WiE&IT) Program, launching this September. As one of the first sponsored programs of its kind in Canada, it aims to close the gender gap in STEM careers by providing women undergraduate and graduate-level students access to tools, knowledge, and resources for a successful transition into the workforce.  

Trend Micro released results from a new study that reveals SOC and IT security teams are suffering from high levels of stress outside of the working day, with alert overload a prime culprit.

With a large number of employees working from home during the pandemic, commercial clients need some way of assigning a risk score to the cyber exposure posed by their users, software applications, and hardware devices, a Canadian information technology security expert suggests.
“In this day and age, many organizations are using SaaS [software as a service] applications and cloud apps,” Antoine Saikaley, technical director of IT security vendor Trend Micro Canada, said in a recent interview.

It’s easy to forget that cybersecurity is fundamentally about people. Attacks are launched by threat actors, phishing emails are opened by employees, and it is your SecOps team that tries, detects, and responds to increasing volumes of these threats. As good as technology systems are, we haven’t reached a point where this defensive work can be automated. So, what happens when your most precious resource, your security team, feels overwhelmed by their workload?

Organizations hit by a ransomware attack face a plethora of encrypted data and a hefty price tag to retrieve it. And many find that whether they pay the ransom or not, the attacks are extremely costly.

Trend Micro Cloud One - Open Source Security by Snyk is the first SaaS service to be added to Trend’s Cloud One platform beyond the original six.

Trend Micro announced that it will transform its partner program to provide more cloud resources, services, and rewards for its partners through added discounts for enabling businesses and organizations to strengthen its public cloud security. The goal of the refreshed program is to make it more profitable for partners that closely work with clients to deploy cloud security services being offered by Trend Micro through its authorized distributors and through the AWS Marketplace or the AWS Consulting Partner Private Offer program.

For Fraud Prevention Month: Greg Young, VP Cyber Security at Trend Micro shares, "Quite often, we see organizations not defending themselves against traditional ransomware, thinking they’re free from ransomware because their machines are locked up…"

Canadian cyber insurers take note: Canada ranked within the Top 20 countries for COVID-themed cyber threat detections last year, according to cybersecurity company Trend Micro.

Trend Micro’s old XDR platform is one of three components of the new Vision One, a broader security microservices platform that the company says will be expanded with additional functionality going forward.

Trend Micro combats security alert overload and resource constraints with an extensible platform that provides visibility and response from a single console. The new platform, Trend Micro Vision One, has extended detection and response (XDR) at its core with new capabilities to help security teams to see more and respond faster.

Trend Micro enhances Cloud One Services Platform cloud-native container security with Run-Time protection.

American-Japanese multinational cybersecurity software company Trend Micro says it will be expanding its education partnerships across Canada this year. 
As part of Trend Micro’s recent partnership with Simon Fraser University, which launched in September 2020, the software company says it’s providing course lectures, lab exercises and assessments in cloud security to the first cohort of the university’s new Professional Master’s Program in Computer Science – Cybersecurity Concentration.

Trend Micro announced today that they have partnered with Simon Fraser University to help train future cybersecurity professionals.At a time in which specialized skills in cloud security is desperately needed, the new partnership will prep Canadian students with industry insights and networking opportunities while they are still in school. 

Trend Micro and Simon Fraser University have partnered to help train future cybersecurity professionals entering the workforce.

Marcia Sequeira, Country Manager at Trend Micro Canada speaks to podcast host Janice McDonald about what it means to be fearless as she navigates her career in cybersecurity.

Kris McCusker speaks with Mark Nunnikhoven, Vice-President of Cloud Research at Trend Micro, about how Canadians can better protect themselves from coronavirus-related threats online.

Trend Micro, a leader in cloud security, announced in its annual mid-year report that COVID-19 related threats were the single biggest kind of threat in the first half of 2020. In a span of six months, Trend Micro was able to eliminate 8.8 million of these, nearly 92 per cent were email-based.

Greg Young, vice-president of cyber security at Trend Micro, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss his take on the CRA attack and Trend Micro's new report on security risks for remote working since the pandemic lockdown.

Trend Micro recently released a report that reveals the most common trends of cybercriminals and how it’s impacting businesses. The article highlights a Q&A with Trend Micro's Myla Pilao.

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, announced the opening of its first Canada data centre service. While a number of businesses consider outsourcing complex security tasks, many are concerned about their sensitive data leaving the country.

Turf wars are heating up over the routers that fuel distributed denial of service attacks—and cybermercenaries are running rampant.

On Wednesday, the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro is releasing findings about escalating global turf wars between attacker groups vying to seize control of vulnerable routers and other devices. Their aim: to power botnets that can direct a firehose of malign traffic or requests for DDoS attacks. Such territory disputes are a hallmark of botnets, but attackers seem increasingly motivated grow their zombie armies not for their own purposes, but in service of more professionalized—and profitable—"DDoS for hire" schemes.