32 Facts About Trend Micro

Trend Micro's succeeded founding CEO Steve Chang, who now serves as chairman.

Trend Micro was established with proceeds from Steve Chang's previous sale of a copy protection dongle to a United States-based Rainbow Technologies.

In 1992, Trend Micro took over a Japanese software firm to form Trend Micro Devices and established headquarters in Tokyo.

In 1996 the two companies agreed to a two-year continuation of the agreement in which Trend Micro was allowed to globally market the ServerProtect product under its own brand alongside Intel's LANDesk brand.

Trend Micro was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1998 under the ticker 4704.

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Trend Micro began trading on the United States-based NASDAQ stock exchange in July 1999.

Trend Micro had fully integrated InterMute's SpySubtract antispyware program into its antispyware product offerings by the end of that year.

In June 2005 Trend Micro acquired Kelkea, a San Jose, California-based developer of antispam software.

In March 2007, Trend Micro acquired freeware antispyware program HijackThis from its creator Merijn Bellekom for an undisclosed sum.

Trend Micro acquired Identum in February 2008 for an undisclosed sum.

Also that year, Trend Micro sued Barracuda Networks for the latter's distribution of ClamAV as part of a security package.

Trend Micro claimed that Barracuda's use of ClamAV infringed on a software patent owned by Trend Micro for filtering viruses on an Internet gateway.

Trend Micro acquired Leeds, England based humyo in June 2010 for an undisclosed sum.

Trend Micro integrated the company's technology into a centrally-managed platform for mobile device security.

In June 2012, Trend Micro acquired Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Secure Sockets Layer certificate provider AffirmTrust for an undisclosed sum.

Trend Micro followed up with another acquisition, Taiwanese advanced network-security firm Broadweb, in October 2012.

Trend Micro relocated its US headquarters to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas in September 2013.

In September 2014, Trend Micro began a partnership with INTERPOL wherein Trend Micro shared with the international police organization information on cybercrime threats via the company's Threat Intelligence Service.

Trend Micro provided a cybercrime investigation training program to INTERPOL.

Also in 2014, Trend Micro expanded its Cloud App Security to protect with Microsoft Office 365 from threats not caught by native Microsoft Security.

In October 2015, Trend Micro reached an agreement to buy TippingPoint, a network and software security developer from HP Inc for $300 million.

Later, Trend Micro joined the VCE Select Program, which allowed Trend Micro's Deep Security to be bundled with VCE's converged and hyper-converged infrastructure systems.

In 2016, Trend Micro discovered that a variant of a virus affecting Android phones was able to infect smart TVs.

Trend Micro announced the launch of a $100 million venture capital investment fund in June 2017 focused on the next generation of technology including the Internet of Things.

In September 2017, Trend Micro was awarded reimbursement through the U S District Court for a portion of the legal fees incurred over rejected patent claims filed by Intellectual Ventures.

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In November 2017, Trend Micro acquired IMMUNIO, adding new capabilities for hybrid cloud security that fit neatly into the DevOps life cycle.

In December 2017, Trend Micro partnered with Telco Systems to develop a virtual network cybersecurity platform combining Trend Micro's Virtual Network Function Suite with Telco's NFVTime software.

Trend Micro admitted that the products had captured and uploaded the data.

In June 2008, Trend Micro introduced Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a cloud-client content security infrastructure that delivers global threat intelligence to protect customers from online threats, such as data stealing malware, phishing attacks, and other web, email, and mobile threats.

In 2012, Trend Micro added big data analytics to its Smart Protection Network.

Trend Micro receives its threat intelligence from TrendLabs, the company's research, development, and support center.

In February 2018, Trend Micro partnered with Panasonic to build more secure systems for electronic control units in automated cars.