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.
SOURCE Trend Micro Incorporated