Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity company founded in 1988 by Steve Chang, Jenny Chang, and Eva Chen. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under ticker 4704 with a market cap of approximately $5 billion and annual revenue of $1.8 billion. Trend Micro has been a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for endpoint security for 19 consecutive years.
Platform Overview
Trend Vision One is the company’s unified cybersecurity platform providing XDR capabilities across the enterprise.
The platform centralizes protection across email, endpoint, cloud, network, and OT environments. Attack Surface Risk Management provides continuous visibility and risk assessment. The XDR engine correlates events across security layers for comprehensive threat detection.
Deep Security protects cloud, container, and virtual environments. The platform defends against malware, unauthorized changes, and vulnerabilities. Integration with Vision One provides unified workload security.
Email security protects cloud email and collaboration services including Gmail, Microsoft 365, Dropbox, and Box. The platform detects threats, analyzes user behavior, and identifies indicators of compromise.
Key Capabilities
Extended detection and response correlates events from endpoints, email, cloud, and network for comprehensive threat visibility. Customers report 80% reduction in time to detect and respond.
Cloud security protects AWS, Azure, and GCP workloads with both agent and agentless options. The platform supports container security, serverless protection, and cloud configuration assessment.
Identity threat detection and response identifies credential-based attacks and suspicious authentication activity across the enterprise.
Key Customers
Trend Micro serves over 10,000 large enterprise customers worldwide with intelligence from 500,000 enterprises and 250 million sensors. Named customers include Dole, Northeast Georgia Health Systems, and Fujitsu.
Acquisition Interest
In August 2024, Trend Micro began exploring a sale after attracting buyout interest, working with Goldman Sachs. Multiple private equity firms including Bain Capital, Advent International, EQT, and KKR have competed for acquisition. Market value reached $8.5 billion amid takeover interest, though no deal has been finalized.
Leadership
Co-founder Eva Chen serves as CEO since 2005. Co-founder Steve Chang serves as Chairman. The company has approximately 7,000 employees across 70 countries.