Trend Micro Deep Security Reviews

Trend Micro Deep Security serves as my main solution for antivirus and endpoint security. In this use case, we manage security policies, file protection, and scanning activities with Trend Micro Deep Security.

Virtual patching stands out as the best feature Trend Micro Deep Security offers. Patching allows us to virtually patch servers without downtime, which is critical given our limited patching windows, and helps prevent servers from being exploited.

The alerting system is another valuable feature, as we can use the logs for SIEM integration and receive real-time alerts, enabling us to track and work on any issues. Activity monitoring and automation in Trend Micro Deep Security have saved us time and improved our response time for critical alerts, as we immediately receive alerts that prompt our team to begin working on them.

The most prominent positive impacts of Trend Micro Deep Security on my organization include how we configure alerting and automate tasks. Additionally, we are using cloud security capabilities, and the file integrity monitoring is very helpful.

The console provided by Trend Micro Deep Security seems quite complicated. Although Trend Micro Deep Security offers many features related to policy creation, making it more user-friendly would encourage more people to use it and enhance trust in the product.

The main improvement needed is to make the console's appearance more attractive. I work with multiple platforms, including Defender, Sophos, Palo Alto Networks, and Proofpoint, and the dark colors of Trend Micro Deep Security's console can deter administrators from spending time on it.

I have been in my current field for more than five years.

Trend Micro Deep Security is comparatively stable in its performance.

The scalability of Trend Micro Deep Security is adequate, as it is utilized across our enterprise services, making it scalable.

I have interacted with customer support mostly for analysis when we encounter issues. About eighty percent of the time, we receive satisfactory responses, with the remaining twenty percent reflecting delays or the necessity for their internal engineering team to provide assistance.

Positive

I previously used McAfee, which is now Trellix. We made the switch after a ransomware attack in our organization on November 9, 2022, when McAfee failed to detect the ransomware threat.

Before selecting Trend Micro Deep Security, I looked into Defender due to its lower costs and also reviewed Sophos, as we were already utilizing it to manage external devices on laptops. After reviewing both, we decided on Trend Micro Deep Security.

I would rate Trend Micro Deep Security around eight out of ten. I chose an eight out of ten because I noted two points regarding the console not being visually appealing or simple to operate and the limitations in creating various policies, emphasizing the need for flexibility in policy creation to show clients that we can implement advanced security measures such as zero-trust segmentation.

My advice for others looking to use Trend Micro Deep Security is to consider the excellent feature of virtual patching, particularly if they currently only run basic antivirus or file integrity systems. Trend Micro Deep Security is good and has significantly contributed to my career growth, but I am very unhappy with its current performance, as it struggles to compete with CrowdStrike. Customers often prioritize attractiveness and marketing over product performance. I have assigned a review rating of eight to Trend Micro Deep Security.

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Other

I am not the direct end-user of Trend Micro Deep Security, but I work as a partner of Trend Micro, selling their solutions to our customers. We primarily work with state government customers.

My customers feel safe using Trend Micro Deep Security. They remain secure, and this feeling of safety is why they choose it. While I am not the end-user to provide detailed feature analysis, the sense of comprehensive security it provides is valuable to my customers.

Trend Micro Deep Security is overpriced. Despite its high quality and comprehensive features, the cost might be a barrier for wider adoption among customers.

I have been working with Trend Micro for approximately fifteen years.

Deployment takes only a couple of hours and is quite fast. We have never encountered any significant issues during the process.

We never see any issues with the stability of Trend Micro Deep Security.

Trend Micro Deep Security fits well with the needs of our state government customers.

Sometimes Trend Micro's technical support delays too long in responding, while other times they respond quickly.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward and takes only a couple of hours.

Trend Micro Deep Security is considered overpriced. While it provides an unmatched sense of security, this pricing can limit the number of customers to whom I can sell it.

Customers have used other solutions but have differing requirements and attitudes towards security.

While Trend Micro Deep Security is great for comprehensive security, the pricing could restrict some customers. Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten.

Our company uses Trend Micro Deep Security as a conventional IPS and for malware detection. The solution is also used for real-time monitoring and to evaluate the monitoring impact on the system. The solution's impact or consumption of memory can also be checked. Trend Micro Deep Security is compatible with various platforms, such as Windows and UNIX. 

In an older version of Trend Micro Deep Security, our company faced issues syncing the active directory accounts. Anytime we revert to the support team of the solution, they always propose to update the Deep Security Manager to resolve every issue, which is an ineffective approach. I believe the support team should be more proactive in providing effective options or guidance to resolve issues around the product. 

Although in our company, we try to add exclusions and troubleshoot for real-time monitoring and upgrade the version, there are clients who consume a lot of memory; on average, 30% of memory remains occupied. The solution's memory consumption impacts certain aspects of the client's infrastructure. 

Even after whitelisting one of our company's port scanning servers or tools, the IPS activity continuously monitors and sends false positive alerts, we haven't found a solution to this over the past four months. Trend Micro Deep Security should have a lab-type environment where the solutions for every issue can be found through simulation. 

Trend Micro Deep Security is looked upon as a new-generation antivirus that is used on the server end. In future versions of the solution, I would prefer the upgrade process to be simpler than on Linux; the upgrade is a lengthy but easy process. Our company expects the tool's upgrade process to be lighter over the Linux platform, similar to its offering for the Windows platform.

I have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for four years. 

I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. The solution is satisfyingly stable. But at times, I have experienced the solution to be non-responsive and there have been instances where the system had hanged without any notification.

Our company team had to manually intervene in the aforementioned scenarios to understand the issues. Often, I have witnessed the system hang and reboot while upgrading Trend Micro Deep Security, our company team had to manually force restart. 

I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. Scaling the solution across Linux systems might be difficult. There are a few Windows systems in our organization that are quite old and out of support, but they are in production; I have rated the scalability after considering all such factors. 

Trend Micro Deep Security is running 24/7 in our organization to receive alerts daily and evaluate the Deep Security Manager to manage issues of our company's clients. In our organization, we are presently trying to onboard more servers and we have plans to expand the solution to the Kubernetes cluster, but the present model of Trend Micro Deep Security does not fit in with the aforementioned cluster or infrastructure. 

I would rate the tech support an eight out of ten. Our company expects more accurate and effective solutions from the support team. 

Positive

I would rate the initial setup process an eight out of ten. Trend Micro Deep Security is not as robust or automated as any EDR solution, so most configurations must be implemented manually.

The manual configuration tasks include whitelisting, adding exclusions, and creating policies. By streamlining the manual configurations, the solution can become more advanced. From the solution's setup process initiation to production, it's a lengthy and exhausting process of manual tasks. 

Our company belongs to the large-scale category with about 1500 system servers, and about three professionals are needed to maintain Trend Micro Deep Security even though we have eight managers, excluding the lab environment. 

Trend Micro Deep Security is capable of providing an ROI. I would rate the solution's ROI as nine out of ten. 

The solution is offered at an average price point. I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. To our company, Trend Micro Deep Security seems slightly expensive. In our organization, the solution's license is renewed yearly. 

The primary advantage of the solution is the insights obtained for a troubleshooting server. For example, the solution's insights often include creating a diagnostics package and directly sharing it with the support team to gain further troubleshooting advice. The insights provided by the solution are vital for the operations on the server side. 

In our company, we always prefer Trend Micro Deep Security over an EDR solution due to its security capabilities, alerts, and a configurable dashboard that auto-updates daily. The solution's dashboard provides clarity on the number of infected files and also allows for the tracking of IPS activity. Any kind of ransomware attack is also mitigated by Trend Micro Deep Security. 

The solution's features, including real-time monitoring, IPS activity, and firewall alerts, are found to be the most effective in our company for network defense. 

In our company, we review the IPS alerts from the Trend Micro Deep Security console to have a fair understanding of what's entering and leaving the server and who is trying to breach the system. IPS is a crucial component in our organization's daily cybersecurity monitoring. 

Most of the alerts will be false positives, but the solution can provide alerts at a rapid pace. First, the alerts arrive on the solution's dashboard, and then the SMTP is configured to distribute the same alerts over email. Once the alerts are received in email, our company team reviews them and tries to identify whether it's a real threat incident or a false positive. The solution thus not only tracks and blocks threats but also notifies the responsible engineers of an organization. 

It's a robust and reliable solution that provides in-depth insights while troubleshooting. I would advise others to evaluate the licensing cost and the support availability in their region before adopting Trend Micro Deep Security.

I was previously working in the Middle East with the solution, where support was superior, and an executive would jump over a call with me to resolve the issue, but in Europe, the support quality is not the same, and communication is preferred only via email.

I expect to witness improvements in the solution's support quality in Europe, where issues are being solved over a single phone call instead of an extensive email thread. I would rate Trend Micro Deep Security as nine out of ten. 

On-premises

I use the solution in my company to reduce SMB attacks on the data center site and ensure data center protection from flooding and threats.

For server security purposes, I like the product's firewall. The firewall has three features we use in our company, of which one controls flooding, the other blocks unwanted ports, and the third allows us to control traffic via Deep Security if the firewall port is open from the switch or router side.

In our company's infrastructure, we have not faced any challenges with the product. Considering the lack of issues or challenges faced with the use of the product in our company's environment, I feel that it is a good solution.

Sometimes, the product is not very stable, but it is something that depends on the infrastructure in which the tool is used. The aforementioned area can be considered for improvement.

If Trend Micro Deep Security wants to implement some new features in it, then I would say that it should focus from a networking point of view and see how to control network traffic specifically coming from external to internal traffic on the servers.

I have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for two years. My company operates as a system integrator for Trend Micro.

If I consider my company's infrastructure, everything is good with the product because we have enabled the threat protection systems to control our environment, so we don't see any suspicious activities.

I rate the solution's stability as ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, it is a good tool, and I rate the solution as nine out of ten.

When it comes to technical support, I would say that none of the products are bad, and all the tools are usually good. There are a few areas where certain modifications or changes are required, and it is something that varies from client to client. In my opinion, all products, including Symantec and Trend Micro, are good. Based on the infrastructure of users and what they want to implement, there are a few things that Trend Micro should understand. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I work with Trend Micro Endpoint Security with Apex One. I also use Symantec.

If I consider my company's infrastructure, everything is good with the product because we have enabled the threat protection systems to control our environment, so we don't see any suspicious activities.

I rate the solution's stability as ten out of ten.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

Symantec and Trend Micro Deep Security are good products, and I don't have any issues with either of the solutions, specifically from a technical perspective.

The costs associated with both the products are taken care of by the sales department or management in our company. Symantec and Trend Micro Deep Security have features that are almost 80 to 90 percent similar. The only area where Symantec needs to improve is related to the remote capabilities it offers.

The product's intrusion prevention system works fine, but we have not implemented any other policies in our company. In our company, we use the default policy in our environment to deal with and prevent intrusions, so we have not customized any policies associated with the intrusion prevention system. With the default policies in place, whenever there is some traffic coming in, the tool will automatically detect, allow, or take action based on the signatures.

I have learned many things while using the product, including the fact that it is very important for a company to decide what they want before purchasing a solution.

I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

We are using the solution for IPS and XDR.

Stronger Protection Across Workloads, Improved Visibility & Compliance, I Feel Lower administrative overhead Very Fewer console changes/agents to manage & Simplified policy creation and enforcement.

Trend Micro Deep Security has fantastic and very advanced features. The most valuable and advanced feature of the solution is the ability to check vulnerabilities. The solution's real-time scanning allows me to monitor my entire network.

The solution's reports should include more details of events like device control, live health status of the server, and inventory management.

I have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for two years.

Trend Micro Deep Security is a very stable solution. Our network and servers haven't experienced any downtime.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for scalability.

The solution's technical support is good and responsive.

Positive

We previously used a different solution. We switched to Trend Micro Deep Security because we wanted cloud deployment and more advanced security. Trend Micro Deep Security has modules like vulnerability assessment and TAC mode, which were not available in our previous tool.

The solution's initial setup is very easy. The solution can be deployed within a few minutes.

The solution’s pricing is reasonable.

We are using Trend Micro Deep Security on our servers, which are in TAC mode. We can only monitor them, and the servers are behind the firewall. We are using the solution only in our LAN environment. There is no direct internet traffic on that server. Since we only work in the LAN environment, we don't get any IPS events. It is very easy to deploy the client and manage the console.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

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Other

For the servers, they have Deep Security. Plus, they have introduced a new feature, which is threat assessment for networking. And that is the one product that we are actually promoting right now more than anything else in their portfolio.

Normally, customers use it to secure their servers. Especially when it comes to updates for our enterprise clients and any client who has more than 10 or 20 servers, it's very hard for them to have downtime to install all the patches, check them, test them, and then run them. 

Trend Micro Deep Security is a very good solution for them because it stops all the vulnerabilities and exploits in the server. It downloads all the upcoming updates and gives you a time of your choice when you want to have downtime, maybe over the weekend. Then you can download all the updates, which have been tested on the Trend Micro site, and freely install them on your servers. Then you can bring the servers back up for working. 

So in that sense, they save a lot of time in downloading and installing updates, while at the same time protecting the servers from all the vulnerabilities and exploits.

Trend Micro use IPS for remote vulnerabilities. If someone is using a remote desktop to exploit the network, that's where users use the IPS. And IPS in our region or in our country, where we have deployed it, it's only in enterprise companies, not as SMBs or the private sector. Mostly, it has been deployed in the banking sector.  

It's a good product. It's taken the majority of the market share in Pakistan from any other product; the major feature of Deep Security is its virtual patching management, which they download on the cloud. They stop all the vulnerabilities and exploits as long as you don't download all the updates and install them physically on the servers. 

So, in that sense, it is a very good product. And we've been selling it for a long time; it's been four to five years. And we have a lot of customers for it.

Trend Micro Deep Security has a sandboxing unit, which is one of the major features that actually gives you a chance to detect any kind of threat in your network or on your servers. 

Also, if users truly want to secure their network and the servers, they may want to use XDR as well, which has all these features we just discussed.

Personally, I would like them to separate their products into different categories, rather than putting everything in one box.

It's scalable in the sense that if they bring out any new version or new edition or anything beyond the IPS. So, it's scalable.  

I used to work with Kaspersky for a long time. Recently, I switched and I'm trying to work with Trend Micro. I'm also trying to include Carbon Black as an endpoint security solution in our portfolio. Carbon Black is in the initial phase, but I'm familiar with Trend Micro. I worked with them before, but not as our primary endpoint security solution. That used to be Kaspersky, now it's Trend Micro.

Now, I work with the entire product range of Trend Micro, but mostly, we're focusing on Vision One. So, from a sales point of view, I know a few things and I'm still learning.

Financial in the sense that it protects your servers. Simple as that. When you get attacked or compromised, the whole network is down. You lose time and money. 

And it takes a long time to recover, especially if it's a ransomware attack. So in that sense, Deep Security is a quite good product.

Trend Micro Deep Security is on the expensive side. If I compare it with other endpoint security products, for example, even Kaspersky or Bitdefender or any of the known endpoint security solutions, Trend Micro is a little bit on the expensive side compared to them.

I would rate it a nine. I think it's a very good product. I would recommend Trend Micro Deep Security to others

We use the solution to protect the customer's infrastructure. It can ensure that the infrastructure is well protected and that the customer has a good institution.

The solution provides ease of use, especially from non-technical testing. It's one of the best things. The deployment process is one of the easiest things because we didn't train our on-site consultant. The constant training from Trend Micro's side is that they develop internal causes to understand the upgrade because once they upgrade the platform, they also upgrade the technical person's skills.

Trend Micro can interact with their consultant to ensure that we receive constant training to understand their platform and how to improve it.

Our clients have used Trend Micro Deep Security for 36 months.

The solution is stable.

15 users are using this solution.

The initial setup is simple. 

You need to pay for a license per user for the product. There is no extra cost. It's pretty variable. It does match the value. It's quite valuable. The ultimate purpose is to ensure that no incident can destroy the company's reputation.

The automation capabilities were perfect. Yeah, they interact with the software. If you install something, there will also be some reports. They will come back with feedback.

One of AI's benefits is improving automation and understanding between different parties. AI is frequently in the news, but everyone does not fully realize its potential. If there is a gap between the workforce and AI, it will remain a buzzword rather than something we fully utilize. We must understand AI, its benefits, and how to use it. Institutions should develop training platforms to bridge this gap and ensure a better understanding of AI's capabilities.

If you use deep security products, you'll be doing yourself a favor. They're not that expensive; they're pretty responsive, and they are perfect for your requirements.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Public Cloud

My company suggests Trend Micro Deep Security to our clients for server maintenance, and the customers can move a lot of servers in their environment with lesser hiccups. Our client uses around 10,000 servers, so we suggested they use Trend Micro Deep Security, a server support-based tool. Apex One and Apex Central are designed for laptops and desktops.

The most valuable features of the solution we have enabled in our organization are its anti-malware capabilities, applications, web reputation, and integrity monitoring.

Our company hasn't received any feedback or suggestions from our clients on Trend Micro Deep Security because it has been working fine. In Apex One and Apex Central, the new versions usually pose issues to their users after updating the tools. There haven't been any critical issues with the solution in the last few months.

A minor issue in Trend Micro Deep Security is that once the tool is upgraded, it shows some machines as offline or not reported while showing a recent update as outdated. The tool has some server connection issues. We have raised the concerns from our end with Trend Micro Deep Security to resolve them.

The real-time server is stopped, and it shows offline whenever we check our console.

I would like to see the tool add EDR features in the future.

I have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for the last five years. I am using Trend Micro Deep Security Version 20. My organization functions as partner support for Trend Micro Deep Security.

It is a highly stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability depends on whether Trend Micro Deep Security's dashboard shows its users with options like critical, medium, or low.

It is a good scalable tool, especially Trend Micro Deep Security Version 20, compared to its previous versions like Trend Micro Deep Security Version 10 or 12.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Around 1,15,000 users are there for the solution. Mostly, my clients are large to medium-sized businesses.

The solution's technical support quickly responds when you raise a ticket. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup for Trend Micro Deep Security Version 20 was comfortable for me.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

Our company has multiple customers. Some customers have on-boarded the tool on-premises, while others have opted for SaaS models. With the SaaS deployment model, it takes only 20 to 30 mins to complete the setup phase if the license is already activated. For new users of the tool, once the license is activated, it initially needs some build-up for the entire deployment of the tool on the SaaS model, which then takes around a week because after a server gets ready, we have to coordinate with multiple teams.

I have seven years of experience with the setup phase of the tool.

The setup phase is carried out with the help of application control, web reputation, and integrity monitoring.

The price of Trend Micro Deep Security is high when compared to the normal prices of Apex One and Apex Central.

I rate the price a seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is a high price. It is a very costly tool. We have been able to resolve the challenges related to the pricing of Trend Micro Deep Security.

There are no additional payments to be made other than the normal price of the tool.

My organization uses Trend Micro Deep Security for Windows platforms, including Windows 2012, Windows 2016, and Windows 2019, as well as Linux.

I would recommend the solution to those planning to use it.

Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.