Trend Acquisition Third Brigade accelerate Dynamic Data Center security

Global network security leading manufacturers trend technology recently announced the acquisition of Third Brigade company. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Third Brigade is a private enterprise that provides security management software. Trend technology The acquisition aims to accelerate its Dynamic Data center security strategy and provide customers with front-line services in critical security certification software and vulnerability responses, protecting their entities, virtual and cloud servers, and enterprise endpoints from treacherous malicious software and malicious activity. The acquisition will follow a specific approval process and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2009, with financial information not disclosed.

"Trend technology has been a pioneer and global leader in server protection software for more than 10 years and this merger demonstrates our commitment to maintain this leadership, given that dynamic data centers have been extended from entities to virtual and public/private cloud environments," said Chen Yihua, a trend-tech executive. The merger also accelerates our continuous rollout of innovative solutions and the perfect mix of dynamic data centers. ”

Third Brigade products and technology and trend technology complement and extend their Dynamic Data center environment malicious protection network, providing greater security, better performance, and more convenient for the use of Virtual Data center organization and service providers, including private and open cloud environment. These products and technologies also allow data center administrators to use and protect their virtual investments, and to maximize cost savings through higher integration rates, more timely and effective patches, and reduced governance costs.

Third Brigade also provides a "host intrusion Detection System" (host-based Intrusion defense system) that protects endpoint security from 0 attacks, and the inclusion of this top solution will make the trend Technology Cloud Safe 2.0 (Smart Homeowner receptacle) Active cloud-cutting service technology architecture is more complete and powerful, Cloud Security 2.0 (Smart homeowner receptacle) is the next generation of cloud content security architecture, designed to protect customers from Web pages and other threats to attack. In the past 18 months, trend Technology and third Brigade have been working closely with the intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) product development, and are ideally integrated with the trend technology enterprise Network endpoint security solution OfficeScan There are now 9 languages.

Third Brigade also strengthens and expands the trend of technology for PCI specification research and development solutions, so that enterprises can quickly and meet the cost of 12 kinds of PCI specification standards of 6, by a single, centralized management software solutions, It also provides a detailed defense record of the attack and an assessment report of the governance policy situation to meet the PCI requirements.

"Our commitment to third Brigade products, partners and customers is an important factor contributing to this decision," said "third Brigade chairman and CEO Wael Mohamed:" We are for expanding information security, across entities, Virtual and cloud environment governance technology, with the same view, by the trend of technology solid enterprise, distribution network and financial resources, will enable us to accelerate the pace of innovation, contact the global market partners and customers. We are very proud and excited to be part of the trend technology team!

Third Brigade services include Fortune 500 leading companies, organizations in the retail, aviation and defense industries, as well as health care, financial services, and federal and state government agencies. These agencies are responsible for detecting, intercepting, and documenting all attacks targeting critical systems and enterprise terminals, third Brigade, to prevent business disruption, to enable enterprises to comply with key regulations and security standards including PCI specifications, and to help save business costs-This is the economic climate that is now under the influence of the financial turmoil is becoming more important.

"Third Brigade has a leading security management solution that goes further in line with the demand for next-generation data centers and business endpoints for 2000 of the world's largest enterprises, small and medium enterprises and government units." "This and trend technology is designed to provide the most flexible and customized network security solutions that coincide with the mission of changing network threats," Chen Yihua added. ”

Last year third Brigade received a number of praise and certification. Ciomagazine.com recently listed it as the 2009 's most noteworthy "10-largest virtualization supplier". The company's product deep security, also held last week in San Francisco's RSA conference, stands out from 450 exhibitors and was eweek selected as "The Top 10 products". Deep Security's host intrusion prevention module, is the first to reach the evaluation Assurance Level 3 augmented (EAL 3+) evaluation of the certification standard module, and its certification of the Cross-platform types (including microsoft®, windows® and Solaris™, Linux™) surpass any other host intrusion prevention products.

Trend technology will be committed to invest in third brigade existing product line, while continuing to supply its independent products, and gradually third brigade capabilities, and trend of the original products and solutions to integrate. Third Brigade's office in Ottawa will be the new U.S. trend technology subsidiary, the Canadian Trend technology Headquarters office.

About Third Brigade:

Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com) is a server and Application protection specialist for Dynamic Data centers. Our advanced software and vulnerability response services enable virtual machines and physical servers to defend themselves and remain secure in today's network threats. This easy to understand, effective protection helps customers prevent data leaks and business disruption, comply with regulatory governance, support operational cost reduction, and conform to the dynamic nature of the data center, including virtualization, consolidation, new service delivery modules, and cloud computing. At the same time, third Brigade owns and maintains Ossec, the main model intrusion detection system, which is widely used in 50 countries in the world. Information security, let Third brigade for your control.