Trend Micro Acquires Immunio and Expands Hybrid Cloud Security for DevOps Lifecycle

As companies build and deploy applications faster across everything from cloud to containers, any drag on the DevOps lifecycle can create drag on an entire business. In response to this, Trend Micro Inc. announced the expansion of its Hybrid Cloud Security solution scope.

New capabilities, attained through a combination of acquiring Montréal, Canada- based Immunio and in-house development, increase the automated protection that Trend Micro can provide throughout the DevOps lifecycle.

"We are excited to acquire Immunio's application protection technology, their team of application security experts and their customers," said Bill McGee, SVP and GM of Hybrid Cloud Security at Trend Micro. "Technology changes, like cloud computing and container platforms, are enabling faster application development. Immunio's run-time application security allows our customers to increase protection against software vulnerabilities within the applications they are building."

Trend Micro is also enhancing its container-specific security capabilities, by supporting container image scanning, which allows security issues to be identified and resolved prior to production release. Customers will be able to scan images in the container registry so that development teams can fix issues prior to deployment and apply run-time protection capabilities based on findings from the imaging. These capabilities will be generally available in April 2018.

Gartner reports, "By 2019, more than 70 percent of enterprise DevSecOps initiatives will have incorporated automated security vulnerability and configuration scanning for open-source components and commercial packages, up from less than 10 percent in 2016."

Trend Micro's new capabilities fit neatly into the DevOps lifecycle, with Immunio bringing early detection and protection against application vulnerabilities, and container image scanning allowing for the publishing and protection of secure container images. The result of these additions are secure, resilient applications and dramatic improvements in run-time operations, whether they are located on-premise or in the public cloud.

McGee continued: "Many of our advanced customers have adopted DevOps lifecycle practices and are using Trend Micro Deep Security in an automated way to provide server and application protection. These new advancements are extending the protection we provide and ensuring that organizations can continue to develop and deploy applications quickly while remaining secure."