A True Visionary Leading Trend Micro to Become One of the World’s Most Innovative Internet Content Security Companies: Eva Chen, CEO

For over 30 years, Trend Micro’s unwavering vision has been to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Security is Its entire focus, and it shows. This single-minded passion has inspired the firm’s innovations that keep up with the bad guys despite a changing IT landscape, riskier user behavior, and constantly evolving threats.

The depth of Trend Micro’s experience remains unmatched. From the endpoint to the network to the cloud, it has got you covered with a connected threat defence recognised by analysts, customers, and industry gurus of all kinds.

Trend Micro continuously innovates to stay one step ahead of the bad guys. The company’s founders have set the tone, the culture, and the road to innovation – building a strong team of people who work together to help achieve a goal of making the world safer to exchange digital information. Since its creation, Trend Micro has become a leader in the safe exchange of digital information. For 26 years, the company’s threat defense experts have focused on the protection of data against targeted attacks.

Inception of the Company

In 1988, Trend Micro was co-founded by Steve Chang, Jenny Chang, and Eva Chen to develop antivirus software—but it didn’t stop there. Over the last three decades, the company has become a market leader in hybrid cloud security, network defense, small business security, and endpoint security. The firm’s seasoned executive team is just as passionate as its worldwide threat and vulnerability experts about making the world safer for exchanging digital information. Their dedication inspires the entire company to consistently raise the bar on protection by expanding boundaries, challenging assumptions, and building a safer future.

For nearly 30 years, Trend Micro’s unwavering vision has been to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Security is its entire focus, and it shows. This single-minded passion has inspired its innovations that keep up with the bad guys despite a changing IT landscape, riskier user behavior, and constantly evolving threats.

The depth of its experience remains unmatched. From the endpoint to the network to the cloud, Trend Micro got you covered with a connected threat defense recognized by analysts, customers, and industry gurus of all kinds.

Smart, Optimised, Connected Security Solutions

The company is more than just the best technology. Trend Micro’s founders have fostered a culture built with people who live and breathe threat intelligence. The company is the threat defense experts. It’s in Trend Micro’s DNA to understand the psychological motivation of attacks, and its collaboration with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the world has led to the ability to stop global threats and take down attackers.

The firm has been named a leader in endpoint security, cloud security, and server security, and are highly recommended for Breach Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems. Trend Micro also has the most advanced threat intelligence network in the world – its Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™, which is continually enhanced by big data analytics and machine learning and is bolstered by hundreds of Trend Micro security experts and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

Furthermore, as a team, Trend Micro is caring and socially responsible. They have home building programs for its employees to participate in and Trend Micro provides internet safety programs for kids and families with free resources. The company also raises money for charities through different initiatives throughout the year.

Clientele Reviews

“The integrity monitoring function of Deep Security strengthened the system to monitor tampering, such as malicious system modification on our websites.”

• Shuichi Hiraki, Associate manager of infrastructure and IS, Astellas

"It is a complete solution that can easily be integrated with the technology we use. We were able to easily set up a protection system that is effective and easy to manage for all our machines operating in our virtualized data center." 

• Fabio Civita, Market Security Operation Center Manager, Telecom Italia

 "System integration is the key to mounting a successful security defense. Trend Micro is not just a suite of products; it’s an integrated end-to-end solution."

• Phillipe Lemieux, IT Director, Canadian Museum of History

The Inspiring Lady

Eva Chen, CEO: Since its inception, Eva Chen has spearheaded Trend Micro’s emergence as one of the world’s most innovative Internet content security companies. Before becoming CEO, Eva served as executive vice president from 1988-1996 and CTO from 1996-2004. Under her direction, Trend Micro has produced a chronology of industry firsts, from unique products to security management approaches. As a result of her innovative leadership, she was appointed CEO in late 2004. Eva holds a master's degree in business administration as well as a master's degree in management information systems from the University of Texas. She earned a degree in philosophy from Chen Chi University in Taipei.

“We are highly innovative – keeping pace with technological change to consistently deliver advanced threat intelligence and protection you can count on.”