traded as tyo 4704 industry security software founded october 24 1989 ; 26 years ago 1989 10 24 los angeles california u.s. founder eva chen steve chang jenny chang headquarters 151 0053 1 no. 2 chome shibuya ku yoyogi tokyo japan area served worldwide key people eva chen ceo mahendra negi cfo raimund genes cto wael mohamed coo steve chang chairman products trend micro internet security aka pc cillin and virusbuster deep security deep discovery officescan smart surfing for mac titanium internet security for netbooks worry free business security hosted email security worry free business services interscan web security interscan web security as a service interscan messaging security data loss prevention core protection for virtual machines enterprise security suite housecall web protection add on smart surfing for the iphone hijackthis revenue 124 317 million 2015 1 operating income 30 976 million 2015 net income 21 435 million 2015 number of employees 5 190 website trendmicro.com trend micro inc. torendo maikuro kabushiki gaisha chinese is a global security software company founded in los angeles california with global headquarters in tokyo japan and regional headquarters in asia europe and the americas . the company develops security software for servers cloud computing environments consumers and small medium and enterprise businesses . its cloud and virtualization security products provide cloud security for customers of vmware 2 amazon aws 3 microsoft azure 4 and vcloud air . eva chen serves as trend micro s chief executive officer a position she has held since 2005 when she succeeded founding ceo steve chang . chang serves as chairman of trend micro . 5 contents 1 history 2 technologies 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1989 in los angeles by steve chang chang ming cheng his wife jenny chang and her sister eva chen . 6 the company was established with proceeds from steve chang s previous sale of a copy protection dongle to a united states based rainbow technologies . 7 shortly after establishing the company its founders moved headquarters to taipei . 8 in 1992 trend micro took over a japanese software firm to form trend micro devices and established headquarters in japan . it then made an agreement with cpu maker intel under which it produced an anti virus product for local area networks lans for sale under the intel brand . intel paid royalties to trend micro for sales of landesk virus protect in the united states and europe while trend paid royalties to intel for sales in asia . in 1993 novell began bundling the product with its network operating system . 8 in 1996 the two companies agreed to a two year continuation of the agreement in which trend 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 . 7 the company began trading on the united states based nasdaq stock exchange in july 1999 . 9 in 2004 founding chief executive officer steve chang decided to split the responsibilities of ceo and chairman of the company . 7 company co founder eva chen succeeded steve chang as chief executive officer of trend micro in january 2005 . 5 chen had most recently served as the company s chief technology officer since 1996 and before that executive vice president since the company s founding in october 1989 . 5 steve chang retained his position as company chairman . 5 in may trend micro acquired braintree massachusetts based antispyware company intermute for 15 million . 10 trend micro had fully integrated intermute s spysubtract antispyware program into its antispyware product offerings by the end of that year . 10 11 in june 2005 trend micro acquired kelkea a san jose california based developer of antispam software . 12 kelkea developed mail abuse prevention system maps and ip filtering software that allowed internet service providers to block spam and phishing scams . 13 kelkea chief executive officer dave rand was retained by trend micro as its chief technologist for content security . 12 in march 2007 trend micro acquired freeware antispyware program hijackthis from its creator merijn bellekom for an undisclosed sum . 14 15 trend micro delisted its depository shares from the nasdaq stock exchange in may . 16 later that year in october trend micro acquired mountain view california based data loss prevention software developer provilla . 17 provilla was the creator leakproof software that allowed companies to block the transmission of sensitive data and warn security managers about transmission attempts . 17 trend micro acquired identum in february 2008 for an undisclosed sum . 18 identum which was founded in and later spun off from the university of bristol cryptography department developed id based email encryption software . 18 the two companies were originally in talks for trend micro to license identum s technology but trend micro later decided to purchase the firm outright . 18 identum was renamed trend micro bristol and its encryption technology was integrated into existing trend micro products . 19 existing identum products were continued but sold under the trend micro brand . 19 also that year trend micro sued barracuda networks for the latter s distribution of clamav as part of a security package . 20 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 . 20 on may 19 2011 the u.s. patent and trademark office issued a final rejection 21 in the reexamination of trend micro s u.s. patent 5 623 600 . 22 in april 2009 trend micro acquired ottawa ontario canada based third brigade for an undisclosed sum . 23 third brigade developed host based intrusion prevention and firewall software that had been used by trend micro in its trend officescan anti malware suite for two years prior to acquiring third brigade . 23 third brigade was reincorporated as trend micro canada technologies . 24 trend micro acquired leeds england based humyo in june 2010 for an undisclosed sum . 25 humyo provided cloud based data storage and synchronization services to small businesses and individuals . 25 26 later that year in november trend micro acquired mobile armor . mobile armor was a developer of full disk file and folder and removable media encryption for mobile devices . 27 trend micro integrated the company s technology into a centrally managed platform for mobile device security . 27 in june 2012 trend micro acquired marlborough massachusetts based secure sockets layer ssl certificate provider affirmtrust for an undisclosed sum . 28 trend micro followed up with another acquisition taiwanese advanced network security firm broadweb in october 2012 . 29 broadweb was a developer of deep packet inspection technology that had the ability to block malicious data packets in real time . 29 the technology was integrated into trend micro s custom defense solution a suite that was designed to provide network wide visibility and protection against advanced attacks and threats . 30 trend micro relocated its us headquarters to the las colinas area of irving texas in september 2013 . 28 the relocation allowed the company to consolidate operations previously housed in cupertino california and arlington texas . 28 31 in september 2014 trend micro began a three year partnership with interpol wherein trend micro shared with the international police organization information on cybercrime threats via the company s threat intelligence service . according to interpol the information helped the international police organization and its 190 member countries decrease cybercrime on a global scale . trend micro also provided a cybercrime investigation training program to interpol . 32 also in 2014 trend micro expanded its cloud app security to work with microsoft office 365 . 33 by 2016 the cloud app security software was expanded to cover box dropbox and google drive . 34 in october 2015 trend micro reached an agreement to buy tippingpoint a network and software security developer from hp inc. for 300 million . 35 36 37 that same year trend micro was certified as a vce validation ready solution and vblock ready through the vce technology alliance partner program . 38 39 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 . 40 gartner named trend micro to the leaders ranking of its magic quadrant rating for endpoint protection platforms in both 2015 and 2016 . 41 42 43 in 2016 trend micro discovered that a variant of a virus affecting android phones was able to infect smart tvs . 44 technologies edit 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 . 45 big data analytics allow the network to use behavioral based identification methods to identify new security threats . 45 the network also combines in the cloud technologies with other client based antivirus technologies to reduce dependency on conventional pattern file downloads on the endpoint . 46 threat information from trend micro s smart protection network is deployed in real time to the company s security software portfolio . 47 trend micro receives its threat intelligence from trendlabs the company s research development and support center . trendlabs has ten labs worldwide and is headquartered in the philippines and employs 1 200 security experts and engineers . 48 the company s singapore based lab provides malware forensics and analysis . 49 see also edit companies portal 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