Trend Micro Deep Security Primary Use Case
Avnish Kumar
Information Technology Service Desk Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
My main use case for Trend Micro Deep Security is its best feature, virtual patching, which allows us to secure our server against known vulnerabilities without having to immediately apply OS or application patches. This has helped reduce downtime, improve compliance, and safeguard critical workloads. The solution has seven modules, including anti-malware, web reputation, firewall, integrity monitoring, and log inspection, but its best feature remains virtual patching.
I use Trend Micro Deep Security in multiple organizations, primarily in the financial sector and multiple banks, where I have protected both our physical and virtual servers from vulnerabilities. Its role is primarily virtual patching, meaning if our server is vulnerable due to a zero-day attack and a patch is not applied, Trend Micro Deep Security creates a virtual patch. That remains the best feature. I perform day-to-day operations with it.
I have implemented and tested multiple use cases on Trend Micro Deep Security solution for different modules, including intrusion prevention and integrity monitoring. For the anti-malware module, I have tested and observed how this product protects against any malicious or suspicious activity.
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Manish Kumar Twinkle
Project Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
For Trend Micro Deep Security, I mainly implement and monitor policies and create policies regarding recommendations. I allow and block applications, create trusted zones, and establish firewall rules.
We have created server-to-server policies. We monitor all the policies and create them based on what we are blocking in our network. For application control, there are many trusted banking applications, so we have to exclude them. We have created rules by vendors.
For anti-malware, we are using a weekly scheduled scan. We monitor the logs to see if any alerts are coming and if it's working or not. We also have daily security patch updates and monitor the alerts and reports on a daily basis.
There is also application control and activity monitoring, such as web control. There is a web reputation module.
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MojammelHossain
Microsoft Security Department at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
In my current scenario with the MFS company, Trend Micro Deep Security is used for servers protection. Our Unix system and Windows system have several services, so for the servers protection, firewall, application control and IPS, IDS, we are working to ensure this actual protection for the solution and servers.
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Trend Micro Deep Security
December 2025
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M-Saleem
Manager, Technical Microsoft at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We have many use cases. We deployed it, and we replaced Semantic with Trend Micro Deep Security for one of our customers in the Telecom sector. Some of our customers are actually looking for Microsoft solutions because most of the endpoints and the infrastructure are Microsoft-based, so they want the platform to be the same.
We are satisfied because we have experience deploying it in a big Telecom sector that has 7,000 NPCs, and they are running different services, Microsoft, Linux-based, and some other operating systems with many applications. They remain satisfied.
At different time spans, we often required technical support. Their portal is available, or we engage with this for any technical issue or if there is any breach, so they often get help from them, and their technical team works with our teams to find out different issues.
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PrashantSharma6
Senior Professional 2 at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Trend Micro Deep Security serves as my main solution for server and workload protection, including intrusion detection and prevention for known and unknown threats, and integrity monitoring, which detects unauthorized changes to critical systems and configurations. Anti-malware and ransomware protection secures workloads from malicious files and processes, along with host-based firewall protection to control inbound and outbound traffic. I rely on Trend Micro Deep Security for day-to-day monitoring of alerts and events, applying security policies, updating security rules, ensuring compliance, and responding to incidents.
A specific example of how I use Trend Micro Deep Security in my daily work involves a critical vulnerability related to Apache Log4j that was recently announced. Before the patching, I checked the IPS module and had a virtual patch available. By enabling that rule for Log4j, all servers were protected from exploitation without waiting for vendor-released patches, preventing potential data breaches and downtime during the patching window.
I use zero-day exploit mitigation with Trend Micro Deep Security. Whenever a zero-day vulnerability is announced, Trend Micro Deep Security's virtual patching via the Intrusion Prevention System protects workloads before vendor patches can be applied, and ransomware protection is also available. My team manages hundreds of servers across on-premise and cloud environments, and when a critical vulnerability is announced, applying OS patches manually would take days and require downtime. As a Trend Micro Deep Security engineer, I have virtual patching via IPS that instantly protects all workloads and systems without scheduling maintenance windows, eliminating emergency patching chaos, preventing downtime, and allowing faster compliance reporting. This enables my team to focus on strategic tasks instead of manual patching. The centralized dashboard also makes work much easier.
In terms of automation, auto-deployment of agents integrates with cloud APIs and orchestration tools including Chef, Puppet, and Ansible to automatically install and configure the agents on new workloads. Policy automation applies protections based on tags or templates, ensuring that whenever a new server is created, it receives the right protection without manual intervention. Scheduled tasks automate malware scans, log inspections, and integrity checks at predefined intervals, and CI/CD pipeline integration allows checks to be embedded into DevOps workflows, ensuring containers and workloads are scanned before deployment.
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Abhishek Motla
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
My main use case for Trend Micro Deep Security was that I worked as an implementation engineer, and I was responsible for managing the tool in the client environment, so it served as a main resource for that and a single point of contact.
I managed Trend Micro Deep Security in my client's environment by implementing the project and the policies based on their environment, such as when any server was going to upgrade or some activity was going to happen.
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Ramesh Elayarajendiradoss
Endpoint Solutions Support at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
Trend Micro Deep Security provides malware threat alerts and allows me to take actions similar to how I manage endpoints like desktops and laptops. I have a dedicated console in Trend Micro Vision One to monitor servers, push policies, manage devices, and receive threat notifications. The software is integrated for managing all devices.
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Abhimanyu Das
Senior Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Trend Micro Deep Security is used in our environment for monitoring and incident response to detect any malicious activity. We utilize the Intrusion Prevention System module, virtual patching, and application control features to manage and secure our applications effectively.
Incident response and monitoring through Trend Micro Deep Security are integrated with Trend Micro Vision One. When an alert is triggered, such as a workbench ID being created for detected malware activity, we receive the alert and begin our investigation in Vision One. We identify the source of the alert, verify associated indicators such as the SHA value, and determine whether the file is malicious. A detailed investigation is conducted to understand the threat, assess its impact, and implement preventive measures. If the file has not been quarantined automatically, we collect and submit it to Trend Micro for further analysis before assessing its severity.
On a daily basis, Trend Micro Deep Security supports our operational activities. We add exclusion files as needed, monitor all malware-related activity, and review application control data to ensure that only approved applications are whitelisted while any unauthorized or risky applications are blocked.
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Harshit Tiwari
Web develope analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Trend Micro Deep Security serves as my main solution for antivirus and endpoint security. In this use case, we manage security policies, file protection, and scanning activities with Trend Micro Deep Security.
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Rajkumar Jain
Director at a retailer with 51-200 employees
I am not the direct end-user of Trend Micro Deep Security, but I work as a partner of Trend Micro, selling their solutions to our customers. We primarily work with state government customers.
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Majid Hussain
Cybersecurity Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our company uses Trend Micro Deep Security as a conventional IPS and for malware detection. The solution is also used for real-time monitoring and to evaluate the monitoring impact on the system. The solution's impact or consumption of memory can also be checked. Trend Micro Deep Security is compatible with various platforms, such as Windows and UNIX.
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Nikhilesh Verma
IT Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
I use the solution in my company to reduce SMB attacks on the data center site and ensure data center protection from flooding and threats.
Vikas Saxena
Information Technology Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
We are using the solution for IPS and XDR.
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Nadeem Syed
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
For the servers, they have Deep Security. Plus, they have introduced a new feature, which is threat assessment for networking. And that is the one product that we are actually promoting right now more than anything else in their portfolio.
Normally, customers use it to secure their servers. Especially when it comes to updates for our enterprise clients and any client who has more than 10 or 20 servers, it's very hard for them to have downtime to install all the patches, check them, test them, and then run them.
Trend Micro Deep Security is a very good solution for them because it stops all the vulnerabilities and exploits in the server. It downloads all the upcoming updates and gives you a time of your choice when you want to have downtime, maybe over the weekend. Then you can download all the updates, which have been tested on the Trend Micro site, and freely install them on your servers. Then you can bring the servers back up for working.
So in that sense, they save a lot of time in downloading and installing updates, while at the same time protecting the servers from all the vulnerabilities and exploits.
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Lucky Lushaba
Scrum Master at a retailer with 1-10 employees
We use the solution to protect the customer's infrastructure. It can ensure that the infrastructure is well protected and that the customer has a good institution.
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Anand-Anandharaj
Senior Endpoint Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My company suggests Trend Micro Deep Security to our clients for server maintenance, and the customers can move a lot of servers in their environment with lesser hiccups. Our client uses around 10,000 servers, so we suggested they use Trend Micro Deep Security, a server support-based tool. Apex One and Apex Central are designed for laptops and desktops.
Usman Bhatti
Senior Officer Security Operations Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We were using Trend Micro Deep Security for the sole purpose of virtual cloud management. It was the best VPM solution in the market, and other sites recognize the quality, such as the Gartner website.
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Muhammad Huzaifa Khan
IS Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using it for NetSpark, and I work for two organizations where I'm using this tool. In both, we are scaling our networks and endpoints, analyzing our traffic, and analyzing the endpoints and security.
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Anil Chauhan
Information Security Specialist at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
I work in a finance-based company, so what we look at would be an anti-malware suite to inspect IPS policies, firewalls, and other such stuff.
SuhailSyed
HICT Administrator (Security Operations Lead) at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security for servers and not for endpoints. So when it comes to the server, the key feature or reason why we went for Deep Security is because of its virtual patching. Usually, the server owners don't tend to keep their servers updated with the latest Microsoft patches. Trend Micro Deep Security provides a layer of security and virtual patching. So even if the server is not patched manually, it ensures that it is protected through this virtual VM.
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Ramy Ragab
Head of Data Link at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Agentless protection is very good for certain use cases.
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ArundevarajM
Senior Technical Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for security and analysis. We provide the solution to our customers who want to protect endpoint security, and this offers a level of protection for endpoints. For customers using the solution for development and in the production environment, it can be used on the server.
It has application control, log integration, and monitoring. Everything there is in Deep Security. They can look at the product to see how it is working and what its usage is.
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Tushar Sinha
Technologist (IoT & Automation), IT & Digital at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In our company, all critical systems are connected to a Security Operation Center (SOC), and we use Trend Micro Deep Security on these servers. Our company is in the manufacturing industry, dealing with metals and mining processes, and many of our solutions are hosted on public IP and accessed from outside organizations' networks. Installing Trend Micro Deep Security helps us prevent ransomware attacks and other unauthorized access attempts. Since we are connected to SOC, we receive detailed information on any attempts to penetrate our systems from outside, apart from just letting us know if there are any vulnerabilities or not. Additionally, Trend Micro Deep Security provides features like sandboxing. However, we have not been able to utilize these features fully.
Since I wanted to know the additional features that Trend Micro Deep Security offers beyond what we currently use in our solution, I was trying to find a comparison between Trend Micro Deep Security and Trend Micro Apex One.
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Harel Cohen
Security Solution Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I use the solution to provide general security for my enterprise clients, primarily for servers. Deployments include cloud and on-prem.
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Gowtham N
Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I use Trend Micro Deep Security to enhance the security of our servers, which run various operating systems, including Solaris. For our servers, especially those involved in Webex, we deploy agents and enable specific modules like anti-malware, intrusion detection, and firewall protection.
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Mustufa Kamaal Afghan
Specialist Enterprise Security Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our company uses Trend Micro for anti-malware support on servers and user PCs. Its normal anti-virus, file integrity monitoring, and threat prevention modules are also active in our systems.
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Mangesh Masaye
Manager at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am a manager for a non-profit and use this solution for its antivirus capabilities.
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reviewer1760400
Senior Security Advisor at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We primarily use the product for the server. We're using Trend Micro Deep Security to protect our servers. We have more than 400 of them.
Venugopal Potumudi
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is mainly an antivirus product for both desktops as well as servers. It has additional modules which can be enabled in fast manner. It uses the same agent and additional modules like FIM, Filing Integrity Management and ELP services.
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Top Sag
SOC at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Trend Micro Deep Security protects our organization from threats. Trend Micro has kept us compliant with PCI and PPA.
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SYEDALI13
Management Trainee Supply Chain Excellence at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Basically, we are using the solution for protecting our server.
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SyedRaza1
Group CIO at a non-tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security for workload security. I also use it for protecting my critical server because it has an intrusion prevention feature.
Trend Micro Deep Security protected us from a ransomware attack two months ago. I can protect my server from ransomware using the product.
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Raghunath Venkatesh
Business Development Manager - Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We are using Deep Security specifically for virtual patching of the virtual disks. The average customer for this is typically a government agency, and they're employing it on critical servers and services. It is usually on a database server, especially a purpose-built aggregation server. Unlike a web server or something like that, these servers aren't generally publicly connected. We have about 20 Deep Security customers, including most of the bigger banks.
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Nagendran Ponnan
DGM-IT at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Our primary use case of Deep Security is running our server smoothly and without any security flaws. The server-level layers have more functionality when compared to desktop-level layers, so Deep Security captures and fulfills all of that functionality and runs smoothly. At the end of the day, Deep Security is also getting the zero-day vulnerabilities from our on-premise and other solutions.
This solution is deployed on-premise, and we are using the latest version.
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Head of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security as a tool for its antivirus and antimalware capabilities to protect our systems.
reviewer2125236
Deputy General Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution to detect malicious threats, secure the endpoints, and disable the UFT.
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Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for security purposes.
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Manish Mimani
Senior manager
Our main use case of this product is for antivirus and virtual patching.
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Ahmet Burak Aydin
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security for security protection.
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Anand Dhouni
Assistance Manager-IT at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security in our server environment.
We are also using it for virtualization security and antimalware functionality.
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Jeevan Kumar
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use this solution for protection from ransomware.
We use artificial intelligence in the Trend Micro engine for deep security inspection. It allows us to analyze the data and threats.
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Maurizio Testa
Security Engineer/Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We are service providers for our customers. We are using Trend Micro Deep Security as an anti-malware and as an complete endpoint protection solution for server. The primary use case is data center security.
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Sachin B
IT Executive at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using two products. One is Trend Mirco Deep Security, and the other is Apex One. We use Apex One for endpoint protection and Deep Security for server protection.
It scans for intrusion prevention and the forensics of any threats.
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I used the solution for a UK-based banking company. They had around 200 Linux servers. They had the product installed as an antivirus solution on the servers. We were responsible for managing malware or virus detection. We protected the environment from malicious files.
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Marco Farid
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I work with the solution as an administrator. I use the solution for servers.
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IT Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution for server security.
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Tejesh S
Technical Associate at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I primarily use the solution for web security and port encryption. It helps protect endpoints.
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IT Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Most of our traffic comes from blacklisted IPs, virus types, and phishing proofing. These are the major use cases that we observe in our daily operations.
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Karthikeyan Balasubramani
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is being used for our servers. It has many features such as firewall, IPS, anti-malware, and antivirus.
reviewer1802343
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
We provide solutions for our clients.
Trend Micro Deep Security is used to secure their important data and important files.
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Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
It gives clients an additional view of what's happening in their data centers.
Deep Security is on-prem at this stage, but it has got cloud workload protection that has similar functionality in the cloud.
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Risk info security at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Deep Security is a server protection product. We use it for virtual patching and file integration. You can use this with your cloud or an NX environment, virtual services, VMware, etc.
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Thamaraiselvan Sheanmugam
TitleGeneral Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for security purposes.
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BobenGeorge
Sr.Customer Engineer- Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I used it in my previous company, and it was basically used for security levels. My company was into the implementation of projects, and we used to implement security solutions. Along with Trend Micro, we used to implement these devices. We had several customers of this solution.
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Raul Poma Astete
Technology Support Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
The primary use case of this solution is for deep security protection when accessing the internet and when performing online accounting.
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Natthapong Prayadsub
IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case of this solution is for anti-malware and virtual paths.
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Founder at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
Our primary use case is for endpoint protection and email as well as web protection. We are stacking our servers once a month and vulnerabilities are checked every day. I'm a senior director in the company and we're a customer of Trend.
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VijayKumar4
AVP - Cyber Secuirty at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Trend Micro makes up part of our overall security solution.
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Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Our environment includes virtual machines using VMware, and this solution is used as part of the overall security solution.
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Vijay M
Senior Security Specialist at a tech services company
We recommend the use of this solution to our clients, both with virtual and traditional servers.
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Data Center Manager/Support Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is to prevent DDoS and other types of attacks from internal or external sources.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use it for virtual environment protection.
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Matthew White
Production DBA at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Our primary use case is to provide endpoint security for our AWS EC2 instances, covering features, such as host-based firewall, IDS/IPS, anti-malware, and application control.
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Mohit Sharma
CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It's used as a part of our managed solutions. Security is key for them because we have seen a lot of ransomware in the past. We do very well on security side, whether it is application network or a host-based security. This is one of the offerings that we offer to our customer by default.
As it is a core part of our managed services, it integrates with other products which revolve around patch management. We have our own IP which takes care of the actual patch management that we leverage. We also have a lot of monitoring platforms with a single, integrate dashboard taking the data from the APIs.
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Tanweer Surve
Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Technologies at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service on AWS through Marketplace and Trend Micro Deep Security on-prem to meet our virtualization security & compliance requirements.
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Swami Venkat
CTO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
We are primarily using the product for IDS, IPS, and deep security.
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Dirty Blueshirt (Aaron S)
Principal Infrastructure Security Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is for managing application whitelisting, and intrusion detection and prevention for the CLOUD Act.
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DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The primary use case is its antivirus and anti-malware capabilities.
We mostly integrate it with the EC2 instances.
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Erin Xavier
Systems Administrator at a media company with 51-200 employees
- End users
- Some servers
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SebastianFernandez
VP of Enterprise Architecture at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's for security: IDS, IPS, intrusion detection, and securing our perimeter in general. E.g., OWASP rules.
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Carlos Sampaio
HR Analyst Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for security, specifically for old servers still in the company. It is doing its job.
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Team Lead Cyber Security Administration at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security to protect our network, endpoint, email, servers, etc.
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Architecte Infra & Cloud at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution for Windows Server on Linux distribution. We have several environments. We use the tool to secure on-premise servers.
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Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Trend Micro Deep Security to monitor the environment in case of zero-day attacks.
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