Trend Micro has Assessed it Meets 7 of 7 Recommendations in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms

With so many vendors on the market, choosing the right cloud security platform isn’t easy.

Gartner recently released seven important recommendations in their 2020 Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms to give you a hand in making an informed and strategic decision.

In our assessment of these recommendations, we believe Trend Micro can help organizations meet all of them.

Keep reading below to see the seven recommendations and sign up today to receive the full report.



Gartner, Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 14 April 2020
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1.) “Architect for consistent visibility and control of all workloads, regardless of location, size, or architecture,” as per Gartner’s report.

We believe Trend Micro Cloud One™ (SaaS) and Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ software provides comprehensive visibility and control of workloads across physical and virtual data centers, as well as public and private cloud environments within Microsoft® Windows®, Linux®, traditional workloads, containers, and serverless. Both solutions provide visibility and detection of workloads scaling up and down through cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft® Azure™, Google Cloud Platform™ and VMware®) connectors.

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2.) “Require cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) vendors to support containers with planned solutions for serverless. Be open to point solutions if your legacy vendor doesn’t meet your container requirements,” as per Gartner’s report.

We believe Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security and Deep Security software provides containers with runtime detection and protection for the container’s platform, traffic, and applications. Trend Micro also supports serverless environments with detection and protection from Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Application Security.

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3.) “Extend workload scanning and compliance efforts into development (DevSecOps), especially with container-based and serverless function platform as a service (PaaS)-based development and deployment,” as per Gartner’s report.

Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Container Security and Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ Smart Check software extends container-based scanning to the development environment. Application Security allows development teams to seamlessly integrate security libraries for detection and protection of serverless function, PaaS-based development and deployment.  Trend Micro Cloud One™ – File Storage Security also extends anti-malware capabilities to cloud file and object storage services that are often used with cloud-based application development. We believe this allows us to meet the recommendation above.

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4.) “Require CWPP offerings to expose all functionality via APIs,” according to Gartner.

Trend Micro takes an API-first approach with both Trend Micro Cloud One (SaaS) and Deep Security software, which we believe allows us meets the recommendation above.  Using APIs, we ensure that customers can automate and implement DevSecOps’ practices in their organization like deployment, health checking, policy updates, reporting, and etc.

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5.) “At runtime, replace antivirus-centric strategies with a “zero-trust execution”/default deny approach to workload protection where possible, even if used only in detection mode,” as per Gartner’s report.

Workload Security provides anti-malware, with behavioral analysis and machine learning, as well as application control that uses a default-deny approach for detection or protection of workloads. We believe this allows us to meet the recommendation above.

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6.) “Architect for CWPP scenarios where runtime agents cannot be used or no longer make sense,” as per Gartner’s report.

For scenarios where runtime agents cannot be used or no longer make sense, Trend Micro offers anti-malware, vulnerability, and secret scanning in the development pipeline. With Container Security and Application Security, development teams can integrate security libraries for detection and protection in PaaS-based environments. We believe this allows us to meet the recommendation above.

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7.) As per Gartner’s report, “Require CWPP vendors to offer integrated cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities to identify risky configurations.”

Trend Micro offers integrated cloud security posture management (CSPM) with Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity, real-time continuous assurance and visibility over your cloud infrastructure. We believe this allows us to meet the recommendation above.

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