Chief Technology Officer
The year 2017 could be a pivotal moment for cybersecurity in Europe. And that’s thanks to two things: alleged state-sponsored interference in forthcoming national elections in the region, and looming European data protection laws. Both have escalated the issue of online threats and data security right up to board level, in Europe and the U.S….
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Over the past decade, the threat landscape has evolved extensively from the beginnings of worms in 2001 to botnets and spyware in 2005. Now, targeted attacks, mobile threats and destructive crypto-ransomware are a daily reality. The damage caused by these threats has escalated, as well, to potentially crippling levels for an impacted organization. To mitigate…
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Trend Micro is a long-time supporter of VirusTotal. We support VirusTotal because we believe that keeping people around the world safe on the Internet requires partnerships. This includes public and private partnerships, like those we and others have with law enforcement that result in the arrest of cybercriminals, like the recent sentencing of Aleksandr Panin,…
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There’s a great scene in the 2012 Bond film Skyfall where M is trying to persuade a panel of cynical politicians of the need for her beloved ‘00’ Section: “I’m frightened because our enemies are no longer known to us. Our world is not more transparent now, it’s more opaque.” She could quite easily be…
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With cyberattacks becoming more frequent and sophisticated, third-party testing is an essential element in providing organizations with peace-of-mind regarding vendors’ products’ effectiveness. We proud to share with you that Trend Micro has been named an ICSA Labs Excellence in Information Security Testing (EIST) Award recipient. The award recognizes Trend Micro’s dedication for continuous testing, signifying its…
Read MoreIt seems like not a day goes by without you hearing someone declare that “AV is dead.” Most recently we’ve even seen people in our industry in the news making this claim. But while some people are busy claiming “AV is dead,” Microsoft has been showing that systems without AV face higher rates of malware…
Read MoreWhen there’s a major cybersecurity threat facing the financial services industry, members of that industry come together and share information through the Financial Service Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). When there’s a major cybersecurity threat facing the health care sector, members of that sector come together and share information through the National Health Information…
Read MoreRecently, Trend Micro received a request for information from Bits of Freedom that was sent to us and fourteen other security companies. Bits of Freedom asked four specific questions around our interactions with governments in regard to our detections of surveillance software. Let me first address these inquiries directly: 1. Have you ever detected the…
Read MoreRecently I have been asked by many CISO’s, CSO’s and IT administrators–who have become very tired of the constant system patch battle and constant security software updates–whether new operating systems like Google Chrome could loosen Microsoft’s stronghold on the desktop OS and just maybe whether we could be safer 5 years from now. Actually this…
Read MoreThe public cloud holds tremendous possibilities for goodness in lowering computing costs and increasing flexibility, but the dark side of the world is always ready to take advantage of cloud delivery models like Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Arbor Networks recently spotted a Google AppEngine Platform-as-a-Service application being used for Command and Control (CnC) for a botnet (here…
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