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National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) – observed every October – was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online.

Some of the venture’s first investments include Veem, a business-to-business payment company (for any country, any currency) utilizing blockchain technology; Muse, a wearable device company dedicated to well-being through biofeedback utilizing their best-in-class brain sensing technology; and Mojio, a leading telemetry company for connected cars.

SMS Threat Insights helps enterprise prioritize response measures by quickly understanding the threats impacting the network and identifying which will need immediate attention. SMS Threat Insights enables network security professionals to:

“We are entering an era where platform security integration is not only expected from cloud service providers (CSPs), but is required as a high-performance native feature to combat evolving threats,” said Partha Panda, vice president of corporate and business development for Trend Micro. “Our layered security approach, combined with Deep Security, offers CSPs a security protection blanket for cloud-based systems and platforms. Being named as one of CRN’s 2017 5-Star partners for the eighth time validates that our approach to streamlining integration across a range of cloud services with customizable controls and automated cloud security all within a single solution fits the protection needs of our customers.”

“Small businesses are not immune to the 500,000 new, unique threats created every day1. In fact, Trend Micro saw a 752 percent increase in new ransomware families that ultimately resulted in $1 billion in losses for organizations worldwide in 20162,” said Partha Panda, vice president, corporate and business development for Trend Micro. “These threats and attacks can disrupt operations and require costly fixes and manpower to correct. Advanced security protection is critical to ensure small businesses vigorously defend against today’s cyber attacks and those to come in the future.”

The purpose of this hearing, “The Current State of DHS Private Sector Engagement for Cybersecurity” is to give private sector stakeholders the opportunity to explain the value and effectiveness of current engagement with the DHS. Private sector engagement is crucial to the DHS mission of enhancing the security, resilience and reliability of the nation’s cyber and communications infrastructure. This hearing will allow for a discussion of DHS private sector engagement and programs to identify what makes particular outreach efforts and products of value to participating entities.

Trend Micro customers have said that a layered endpoint protection approach provides the best protection against the broadest range of threats for them. Customers have indicated the need for endpoint security solutions that offer additional capabilities aimed at stopping more threats and exploits, such as behavioral analysis, machine learning, exploit and vulnerability protection, application control and sandbox analysis, along with data loss prevention and encryption solutions to protect data.

“We are committed to staying on the forefront of attack trends and anticipating our customers’ evolving network security requirements,” said Don Closser, vice president and general manager for Trend Micro TippingPoint. “Our teams came together over the past year to fully integrate Trend Micro Deep Discovery/Advanced Threat Protection with TippingPoint Next-Generation IPS. I believe this successful combination strengthened our overall product offering to solidify our Leader placement in this year’s Magic Quadrant.”

“Customers with high traffic environments require a solution that can operate seamlessly and help prioritize the threats they need to focus on first,” said Don Closser, vice president and general manager for Trend Micro TippingPoint. “Our 100 Gb solution’s superior performance as well as exclusive insight into undisclosed vulnerability data through our Zero Day Initiative program provides them real-time, accurate threat prevention between vulnerability discovery and patch availability.”

Gartner predicted in 2015 that by now there would be more than 4 billion connected IoT devices in consumer smart home environments and 25 billion by 2020. IoT security is more than a buzzword, but a security challenge for home users. According to the data analyzed by the Trend Micro network threat defense team, a single router can detect more than 12,000 attack events worldwide on a monthly basis. Additionally, 90 percent of the top 10 security events are outbound attacks and exploits by home devices.