Trend Micro is an international cybernicular security and defense company based worldwide in Tokyo, Japan, centered at the Asia, Europe, and North America corporate offices and R&D centers. This designs client protection tools for servers, databases, and storage systems, networks, and ends. The security products of its VMware, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud platforms allow automatic safety for VMware customers. Eva Chen, Chairman, is the CEO of Trend Micro, a position she has kept since 2005. She replaced Steve Chang, CEO and now Chairman. Steve Chang (Chang Ming-cheng) and his father, Jenny Chang, founded the company in Los Angeles in 1988, and their son, Eva Chen.
The company had been created from the previous sales of a copy
protection dongle by Steve Chang to Rainbow Technologies headquartered in The USA. The owners relocated headquarters to Taipei soon after the founding of the
business. The company Trend Micro was founded in Japan and took over a Japanese
software company in 1992. The firm then decided to develop an anti-virus
software for local area networks (LANs) for distribution through Intel. It then
partnered with the Intel corporation CPU supplier. Regarding sales of LANDesc
Virus Safe, Intel has billed royalty to Trend Micro in the US and Europe, while The trend has compensated Intel royalties in Asia. Novell started binding the
product to the operating network in 1993. In 1998 Trend Micro was listed under
ticker 4704 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Founding CEO Steve Chang has decided
in 2004 to divide CEO and Chairman of the company's responsibilities.
In
January 2005 Steve Chang was succeeded as CEO of Trend Micro by co-founder Eva
Chen. Since 1996 and before this executive vice president since it was founded
in October 1989, Chen was most recently Chief Technology Officer of the
company. As chairman of the group, Steve Chang retained his position. In May,
Trend Micro purchased InterMute $15 million from Braintree in Massachusetts. By
the end of that year Trend Micro had fully integrated InterMute's SpySubtract
antispyware system. Keller, a Californian anti-spam software developer based in
San Jose acquired Trend Micro in June 2005. Kelkea has developed mail abuse
prevention software (MAPS) and IP filtering software to block spam and phishing
scams from internet service providers. Trend Micro as its main technologist for
web protection retained Kelkea Chief Executive Officer, Dave Rand. Trend Micro
acquired HijackThis freeware antispyware from its creator, Merijn Bellekom, in
March 2007, for a sum not revealed. In May, Trend Micro delisted its NASDAQ
depository shares.
The following October, California-based data loss prevention
software developer Provilla, acquired Mountain View in Trend Micro. Provilla
developed LeakProof, an app that allows companies to prevent sensitive data
transfer and alerts security managers of attempts to send them. In February
2008, Trend Micro purchased Identum for a non-revealed number. Ideum has
developed an ID-based email encryption program that was produced in and after the
split-off of the Bristol University Cryptography Department. Serial entrepreneur
Steve Purdham was Identum President. Initially, both firms were concerned about
Trend Micro to license the technologies for Identum, but Trend Micro decided
later to buy the company entirely. In comparison to its current trend micro
products, Identum was dubbed Trend Micro (Bristol) security and encryption. Continued
but marketed under Trend Micro name are current Identum goods. This year as
well, Barracuda Networks sued Trend Micro as part of the security package for
the distribution of ClamAV by the latter. Trend Micro claimed that the use of
Barracuda's ClamAV breaches a Trend Micro proprietary software patent to detect
viruses on the internet portal. In the United States on 19 May 2011 In revising
the U.S. Trend Micro patent 5,623,600, the Patent and Trademark Office issued a
final refusal.
