Trend Micro Brings Security to the Cloud

Trend Micro today announced that it is making a beta version of a new Trend Micro Secure Cloud offering available now.

According to Todd Thiemann, senior director of data center security marketing, Trend Micro Secure Cloud will allow IT organizations to deploy a malware protection solution on top of either a private or public cloud infrastructure. The new offering, he said, has been written from the ground up to provide a consistent approach to malware protection using a common set of policies.

What makes the Trend Micro approach unique, said Thiemann, is that it allows customers to manage encryption keys down to individual files, which Thiemann says should start to alleviate many of  the security concerns associated with cloud computing. Trend Micro Secure Cloud, scheduled to be available in the fourth quarter, supports Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus and VMware vCloud enviornments

Trend Micro this week at the VMworld 2010 conference also released version 7.5 of Trend Micro Deep Security, which adds support for the VMware vSheld API. This new API means that customers no longer need to deploy dedicated agent software to integrate VMware systems with Trend Micro security offerings.