Global leader in cybersecurity deepens cloud-native investments to drive innovation for end users
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud-native software, announced today Trend Micro upgraded your membership to gold. The move marks significant progress in Trend Micro’s collaborative efforts to advance cloud-native technologies and security practices, reflecting a commitment to innovation and customer success in the cloud domain.
Powered by decades of security expertise, global threat research and constant innovation, Trend helps make the world safe for digital information sharing. The company’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices and endpoints. For more than 35 years, Trend has maintained a special focus on cybersecurity, pioneering areas such as Attack Surface and Exposure Management, Extended Detection and Response (XDR), threat and vulnerability research, and threat protection.
“In response to the increasing demand for cloud-native solutions among our clientele, Trend remains steadfast in its commitment to strengthening organizations’ efforts in the secure use of these technologies,” he said. Fernando Cardoso, Director, Cloud Security Product Management at Trend Micro. “Our decision to upgrade our CNCF membership to Gold underscores our commitment to advancing secure cloud practices and fostering collaboration within the community. We are eager to contribute to the collective effort of preserving cloud-leading solutions around the world.”
Since joining CNCF in 2021, Trend has actively participated and contributed to several CNCF projects including Falco and Kubernetes. The team recently integrated Kubernetes Admission Control through Trend Vision One™ – Container Security, marking a key advance in unifying inventory visibility across multiple Kubernetes clusters in hybrid environments. This integration directs runtime protection for containers and centralizes security policy management and telemetry aggregation. The company has also invested in open source technologies including OSSEC, TLSH and others. They also support important initiatives around securing the container environment by supporting over 20% of the techniques on the MITER container framework.
“The cloud native security community within the CNCF ecosystem is very active and I’m sure they will greatly benefit from Trend’s insights,” he said. Priyanka Sharma, CEO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “We are thrilled that Trend has redoubled its commitment to contributing to the growth of cloud-native technologies and look forward to working together to drive innovation in cloud-native security.”
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Native cloud computing enables organizations to build and run scalable applications with an open source software package in public, private and hybrid clouds. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy. CNCF brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors, and runs the largest open source developer conferences in the world. Supported by more than 800 members, including the world’s largest cloud computing and software companies, as well as more than 200 innovative startups, CNCF is part of the non-profit Linux Foundation. For more information visit www.cncf.io.
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