Fixing cloud migration: What goes wrong and why?

The cloud space has been evolving for almost a decade. As a company we’re a major cloud user ourselves. That means we’ve built up a huge amount of in-house expertise over the years around cloud migration — including common challenges and perspectives on how organizations can best approach project...

Tax Scams – Everything you need to know to keep your money and data safe

Tax season has always been a pretty nerve-wracking time for hard-working Americans. But over the years, technology advances have arrived to gradually make the process a bit easier. The bad news is that they can also introduce new cyber risks and even more stress. There are two things that...

Ask Me Anything – Celebrating The Fifth Anniversary Of My Monthly Threat Webinar

In July 2015, I did my first threat webinar. I had planned to do it on a monthly basis, and never imagined I would still be doing it five years later, but here I am, still creating monthly webinars. I still do. I started the webinar series to help people understand the different threats targeting...

This Week in Security News: 15 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums and New Mirai Variant Expands Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how fifteen billion usernames and passwords for a range of internet services are currently for sale on underground forums. Also,...

Cleaner One Pro Speeds Up Your Mac: Part 1

The Mac has always been pretty easy to use, but even the most ardent Mac supporters know there comes a time when their Mac is no longer new and they notice slowdowns in its performance, particularly after intensive use. They’d like a handy one-stop tool to help them optimize memory and CPU...

Cloud Security Is Simple, Absolutely Simple.

"Cloud security is simple, absolutely simple. Stop over complicating it." This is how I kicked off a presentation I gave at the CyberRisk Alliance, Cloud Security Summit on Apr 17 of this year. And I truly believe that cloud security is simple, but that does not mean easy. You need the right...

Automatic Visibility And Immediate Security with Trend Micro + AWS Control Tower

Things fail. It happens. A core principle of building well in the AWS Cloud is reliability. Dr. Vogels said it best, “How can you reduce the impact of failure on your customers?” He uses the term “blast radius” to describe this principle. One of the key methods for reducing blast radius is the AW...

Cloud Security Gaps and Misconfigurations

Listen to this podcast from “The SecureWorld Sessions” to learn how to discover the security gaps and misconfigurations that may be lurking in your infrastructure after migrating to the cloud, and how you can simplify your security...

Beyond the Endpoint: Why Organizations are Choosing XDR for Holistic Detection and Response

The endpoint has long been a major focal point for attackers targeting enterprise IT environments. Yet increasingly, security bosses are being forced to protect data across the organization, whether it’s in the cloud, on IoT devices, in email, or on-premises servers. Attackers may jump from one...

ISO/SAE 21434: It’s time to put the brakes on connected car cyber-threats

Connected cars are on the move. Globally their number is set to grow 270% between 2018 and 2022 to reach an estimated 125 million in a couple of years. Increasingly, these vehicles are more akin to high-performance mobile computers with wheels than traditional cars, with features including intern...

This Week in Security News: Payment Card Skimmer Attacks Hit 8 Cities and Survey Finds 72% of Remote Workers Have Gained Cybersecurity Awareness During Lockdown

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about eight U.S. cities that recently had payment card data stolen via point-of-sale skimming malware on their Click2Gov online payment...

Survey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success

Organisations have been forced to adapt rapidly over the past few months as government lockdowns kept most workers to their homes. For many, the changes they’ve made may even become permanent as more distributed working becomes the norm. This has major implications for cybersecurity. Employees ar...

Are You Promoting Security Fluency in your Organization?

Migrating to the cloud is hard. The PowerPoint deck and pretty architectures are drawn up quickly but the work required to make the move will take months and possibly years. The early stages require significant effort by teams to learn new technologies the cloud services themselves and new ways o...

Connected Car Standards – Thank Goodness!

Intelligent transportation systems ITS require harmonization among manufacturers to have any chance of succeeding in the real world. No large-scale car manufacturer, multimodal shipper, or MaaS Mobility as a Service provider will risk investing in a single-vendor solution. Successful ITS require...

Risk Decisions in an Imperfect World

Risk decisions are the foundation of information security. Sadly, they are also one of the most often misunderstood parts of information security. This is bad enough on its own but can sink any effort at education as an organization moves towards a DevOps philosophy. To properly evaluate the risk...

How to Secure DevOps in Microsoft Azure

Want to establish best practices within Microsoft Azure? Learn how to integrate a Secure DevOps Kit for Azure AzSK at the subscription level, as well as in your development process during coding, CI/CD pipeline, and future alerting and reporting...

Build in the Cloud with Confidence

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach to building cloud architectures. Learn how to leverage consistent best practices and guidance for your architecture so you can focus on building great solutions in the cloud...

Perspectives Summary – What You Said

On Thursday, June 25, Trend Micro hosted our Perspectives 2-hour virtual event. As the session progressed, we asked our attendees, composed of +5000 global registrants, two key questions. This blog analyzes those answers. First, what is your current strategy for securing the cloud? Rely completel...

Principles of a Cloud Migration

Development and application teams can be the initial entry point of a cloud migration as they start looking at faster ways to accelerate value delivery. One of the main things they might use during this is “Infrastructure as Code,” where they are creating cloud resources for running their...

This Week in Security News: XORDDoS and Kaiji Botnet Malware Variants Target Exposed Docker Servers and Ripple20 Vulnerabilities Could Impact Millions of IoT Devices

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about two recently detected variants of existing Linux botnet malware types targeting exposed Docker servers. Also, read about a group...

8 Cloud Myths Debunked

Many businesses have misperceptions about cloud environments, providers, and how to secure it all. We want to help you separate fact from fiction when it comes to your cloud environment. This list debunks 8 myths to help you confidently take the next steps in the cloud. The post 8 Cloud Myths...

Healthcare Enterprises Share Risk Reduction Insight

Healthcare organizations are subject to strict regulations, including data security and privacy. Three enterprises discuss risk reduction within a sector where a data leak could prove disastrous...

Reduce the Attack Surface of Your Container Images

Follow along as Chuck Losh, Solutions Architect, walks through a new way of thinking in how to construct distroless images from Google, using an example of a multi-stage Dockerfile method...

Knowing your shared security responsibility in Microsoft Azure and avoiding misconfigurations

Trend Micro is excited to launch new Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity capabilities that will strengthen protection for Azure resources. As with any launch, there is a lot of new information, so we decided to sit down with one of the founders of Conformity, Mike Rahmati. Mike is a technologist a...

The Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures

Vendor lock-in has been an often-quoted risk since the mid-1990’s. Fear that by investing too much with one vendor, an organization reduces their options in the future. Was this a valid concern? Is it still today? The Risk Organizations walk a fine line with their technology vendors. Ideally, you...

Cloud Assurance from Infrastructure to App

In this webinar, Trend Micro and IDC explain the importance of security guardrails in Amazon Web Services AWS and Microsoft® Azure™ play in obtaining cloud operational excellence...

Protect Cloud Workloads with Azure Sentinel

Looking for SIEM and SOAR integration for your Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security investment? Learn how you can get Azure Sentinel capabilities added to Workload Security and how this integration can create a more valuable solution...

This Week in Security News: Intel Says ‘Tiger Lake’ Will Drown Control-Flow Malware and New Phishing Campaign Targeting Office 365 Exploits Brand Names

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how the next generation of Intel mobile processors will include malware protection built into the chip. Also, read about a new...

How to Fix Security Misconfigurations Automatically

Mistakes happen, but what happens if someone accidentally introduces a misconfiguration into your public cloud account. Explore the auto-remediation capabilities offered by Trend Micro and unburden your team from manually cleaning up the mess...

Open Doors with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Gain insights into the importance of being well-architected during the deployment process and how to quickly remediate risks by shifting best practice checks to the earliest phase of the CI/CD pipeline...

This Week in Security News: Microsoft June Patch Tuesday Fixes 129 Flaws in Largest-Ever Update and New Android Spyware ActionSpy Revealed via Phishing Attacks from Earth Empusa

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Microsoft’s largest-ever Patch Tuesday update including 129 CVEs. Also, read about a new Android Spyware dubbed ActionSpy. Read...

Trend Micro Guardian: Protecting Your Kids On-the-Go

Some smart devices are not limited to use on the home network; for instance, your child’s mobile phone or tablet. Keeping your kids safe on these on-the-go devices means extending your security policies beyond the home. Trend Micro Home Network Security HNS makes it easy with its complementary ap...

Bridging the Cloud Communication Gap. #LetsTalkCloud

The conversation between you and your Board of Directors is not always a walk in the park. With more and more cloud projects coming your way, it’s time to change the conversation to speak their language and start smoothing out the journey...

Not Just Good Security Products, But a Good Partner

The analyst firm Canalys annually produces their Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix. Whereas many third-party assessments are looking at just the security product, this one focuses on the value to channel partners. Sidebar: what is the channel? If you aren’t actively buying or selling cybersecurity...

This Week in Security News: Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode and TrickBot Adds Enterprise-grade Module to Malware Arsenal

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a new module for the infamous trojan known as TrickBot that has been deployed. Also, read about Google’s $5 billion class-action...

Message from Eva Chen – as a human being, not a CEO: We need to speak out and act against racism

I would like to express my outrage over the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery – not as the CEO of an international company, but as a human being and a citizen of the world. It makes me very sad, but also intensely frustrated and angry to realize how little is bein...

This Week in Security News: How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years and the NSA Warns of New Sandworm Attacks on Email Servers

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about how, over the past five years, the cybercriminal underground has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels,...

Exploring Common Threats to Cloud Security

The adoption of cloud services helps drive agility, differentiation, and progress. But like any technological progress, cyber risks are attached. IT leaders need to embrace a more holistic, simpler way to manage security...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The HOW

“How about… ya!” Security needs to be treated much like DevOps in evolving organizations; everyone in the company has a responsibility to make sure it is implemented. It is not just a part of operations, but a cultural shift in doing things right the first time – Security by default. Here are a f...

Securing the Connected World with Support for The Shadowserver Foundation

If the first few months of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s the importance of collaboration and partnership to tackle a common enemy. This is true of efforts to fight the current pandemic, and it’s also true of the fight against cybercrime. That’s why Trend Micro has, over the years, struck...

21 Tips to Stay Secure, Private, and Productive as You Work from Home on Your Mac

Nowadays, Macs are part of the work-from-home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve brought a Mac from the office to home, it’s likely your IT department has already set it up to meet your company’s security policies. But what if you’re enlisting a Mac already at home to do duty for...

Is Cloud Computing Any Safer From Malicious Hackers?

Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT world, making it easier for companies to deploy infrastructure and applications and deliver their services to the public. The idea of not spending millions of dollars on equipment and facilities to host an on-premises data center is a very attractive...

How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years

The cybercrime economy is one of the runaway success stories of the 21st century — at least, for those who participate in it. Estimates claim it could be worth over $1 trillion annually, more than the GDP of many countries. Part of that success is due to its ability to evolve and shift as the...

This Week in Security News: New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers and Backdoor, Devil Shadow Botnet Hidden in Fake Zoom Installers

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about a new security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device. Also, learn...

Integrate Security Into DevOps and IaC

This article provides recommendations on implementing security into your CI/CD and infrastructure as code pipeline, and most importantly, how to enable both security and DevOps to start speaking each other’s languages...

This Week in Security News: How Researchers Used an App Store to Demonstrate Hacks on a Factory and Microsoft Again Surpasses 100 Vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how researchers at Trend Micro used an app store to demonstrate hacks on a manufacturing facility. Also, learn about this month’s...

From Bugs to Zoombombing: How to Stay Safe in Online Meetings

The COVID-19 pandemic, along with social distancing, has done many things to alter our lives. But in one respect it has merely accelerated a process begun many years ago. We were all spending more and more time online before the virus struck. But now, forced to work, study and socialize at home,...

Protect Your Cloud Workloads using IaC

Get step-by-step instructions on how to perform an automated security deployment utilizing Terraform by Hashicorp, an Azure Custom-Script Extension, and a Trend Micro Cloud One™ deployment script stored in an Azure Key Vault...

Securing Smart Manufacturing

“Alexa, turn on the TV.” ”Get it yourself.” This nightmare scenario could play out millions of times unless people take steps to protect their IoT devices. The situation is even worse in industrial settings. Smart manufacturing, that is, Industry 4.0, relies on tight integration between IT system...

Protect Your Container Images and CI/CD Pipeline

Ever wonder if the container images you provide to customers have been checked for vulnerabilities, malware, and other malicious threats? Read this article on how to easily and quickly set up protection for your container images and CI/CD pipeline...