Trend Micro Launches Attack Scanner App for Splunk to Protect Against Next-Gen Threats

DALLAS, Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses strive to expand their customer insight through big data analytics, Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in security software, today announced the launch of the Trend Micro™ Attack Scanner app for Splunk, (NASDAQ: SPLK), a provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence.

The Trend Micro™ Attack Scanner helps detect signs of malware activity and targeted attacks by comparing the URLs within a Splunk user's indexed data against a database of command-and-control servers regularly updated by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure. As Trend Micro's cloud intelligence framework, the Smart Protection Network rapidly and accurately identifies new threats, delivering global threat data to all of its security solutions.

"Thousands of organizations rely on the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network to help protect their most valuable digital assets against online attacks that are increasing not only in volume, but effectiveness and sophistication," said Max Cheng, chief core technology officer at Trend Micro. "Our new Attack Scanner app leverages our unique dynamic threat intelligence with Splunk's powerful log correlation to find sophisticated threats that are present on the customer's network."

The app's functionality allows users to identify hosts that have potentially been compromised with malware used by command-and-control servers, as well as retroactive scans of web access logs against the Smart Protection Network database.

Users can download the Trend Micro Attack Scanner for Splunk by visiting https://apps.splunk.com/app/1879/#/documentation.

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 more than 1,200 threat experts around the globe.  For more information, visit TrendMicro.com.

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