Trend Micro Deep Security Reviews

We primarily use the product for the server. We're using Trend Micro Deep Security to protect our servers. We have more than 400 of them.

The most valuable aspect, that we didn't find until now with Deep Security, is the EDR - endpoint detection and response - a feature that comes with the version that we have now. 

DLP, Data Loss Prevention, and the complexity of how we manage the console and how this client, or this tool, will notify us when there is something going wrong within the server and endpoint is good. This feature we didn't see very well developed with Trend Micro solution at first. 

The risk is very complex. We need our tools to be more intelligent, more automated, more detectable. They could improve all of those aspects. I'd specifically like to see automation in terms of detection and auto mitigation.

The integration could be better. When we need to integrate a full console to manage endpoints and servers in the same place, we need to understand better how to deploy it so we don't need an agent or something else to deploy the solution to monitor everything.

The initial setup can be difficult. 

The stability is good. We haven't dealt with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

It's not very scalable or automatically scalable. If you want to be scalable, you need to add more licensing, to add more costs. If you want to be scalable and have more capabilities, you need to buy more.

We use the solution to cover all of our servers and Trend Micro in general to cover all of our assets. 

I've never dealt with technical support directly. However, my colleague has, and their feedback has been positive. They have no complaints. 

For endpoints, for clients themselves, we use Endpoint Protection for Windows 8 and Windows 7. We still use Trend Micro Endpoint Protection. Also, for all our server VDIs, virtual servers, and physical servers, we use Trend Micro Security.

The solution is difficult to set up, maintain, and manage. There are a lot of options, a lot of buttons, a lot for new items. It's not very user-friendly. You need a lot of training to be able to manage and implement the solution correctly.

We have two system admins that manage servers. You need two people to manage and maintain the solution.

We did not use an integrator or consultant. We have a small team. We handled things internally. For the first implementation, however, we did have an integrator's support and they would assist when we ran into issues. 

We pay a yearly fee of between $10,000 and $15,000. There are no costs beyond the standard licensing fee. However, if you need to scale, you will have to buy more licenses. 

We are researching another solution right now. Our strategy is to find the last best version that Trend Micro has for covering endpoint detection and response.  We scaled for the next version that we have now, and we are seeing if other solutions help more. We're looking into the Kaspersky Endpoint Suite. 

We are a customer and an end-user.

While I don't know the version number off-hand, we are using the latest version of the solution.

New users must assess their exact needs from their side before starting. Look in the market, look at the risk, look at the problem of cyber security for other clients and the chances of attack, et cetera. Look also at the infrastructure, such as the type of machines - if they are full cloud, on-prem, or hybrid.

You must make an assessment locally, internally. When the customer has these visibilities, he can go to the market and select which solution, or which two or three solutions, can best suit the company's needs. Do a proof of concept and try it. Look at the cost and the ratio quality cost, as that'll definitely be determinant for the decision.

I'd rate the solution at a six out of ten.

It is for managing application whitelisting, and intrusion detection and prevention for the CLOUD Act.

• It is flexible.
• The configuration is quite easy.

The initial setup needs improvement. Once it is set up, the configuration is relatively simple. However, the initial setup was a bit of a challenge.

We haven't had any issues with stability. It has been rock solid for us.

In the past year, it is still a fairly lightweight environment, so there has not been a lot of stress.

Size of our particular environment is about 200 systems. The scalability has worked very well for us.

We used the technical support for setting up profiles. Working with them was pretty good, they are extremely responsive and helpful.

The integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment was good. We haven't had any problems at all.

We haven't really seen ROI so far. Since it is a light traffic environment right now, the product hasn't had that many incidents to deal with yet.

Our company chose to procure this product via AWS Marketplace due to regulatory requirements. We mostly use it in the AWS GovCloud.

I was not at the company when they evaluated the other products. I do know that they evaluated Symantec.

Trend Micro was selected because it has better whitelisting of applications, its intrusion detection was far superior, and it has configurability.

The best approach is to start off with a node where it is sort of monitoring and looking at stuff, then work your way into the actual prevention and blocking. Because it can turn off a bunch of services without too much effort which can be good, but it can also shut things down.

We haven't really gone into the integration aspect yet.

We use Trend Micro Deep Security to monitor the environment in case of zero-day attacks.

The product's most valuable feature is the threat prevention module. It helps with virtual patching and IDS fetching.

They should include WAF modules in the product. There should be signature-based advanced and responsive features.

We have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for a year.

It is a highly stable product. I rate its stability a ten out of ten.

I rate Trend Micro Deep Security's scalability a ten out of ten. We use it 24/7.

The implementation is straightforward. I rate the process a nine out of ten. We require a team of five executives for troubleshooting.

Trend Micro Deep Security has robust virtual patching features. I rate it a ten out of ten.

We are using Deep Security specifically for virtual patching of the virtual disks. The average customer for this is typically a government agency, and they're employing it on critical servers and services. It is usually on a database server, especially a purpose-built aggregation server. Unlike a web server or something like that, these servers aren't generally publicly connected. We have about 20 Deep Security customers, including most of the bigger banks. 

Deep Security provides us with a lot of reassurance about security threats. You don't have to worry about a patch not being there in the software. You're confident that all the patches and vulnerabilities are taken care of.

I think more work could be done on Deep Security's ability to handle dynamic threat scenarios. 

We have been using Trend Micro Deep Security for the last three years.

Deep Security is a highly stable product.

Deep Security is scalable. 

Setting up Deep Security isn't that complicated. The entire process takes 90 days, including a proof of concept to demo the product in the customer's environment and show them what it can do. Typically, it takes about 90 days to close a deal. We have 15 members on our team.

We have different people to handle the implementation. Our technical team gets involved at that point then we finalize the scope and document whatever the customer wants for this solution.

Deep Security isn't expensive for what it does. Our customers understand what the product is doing, so they are always willing to pay for that. In India, the price isn't an issue with this product actually because the competing Symantec product is much more expensive than Trend Micro. The pricing isn't that cheap, but every customer will ask for a discount regardless of the price you quote.

I rate Trend Micro Deep Security nine out of 10. I recommend Deep Security to all our customers for server security. We sell quite a few security solutions, and we offer two products for server security: Trend Micro and Symantec. Since Symantec isn't really focusing on this area, we are primarily suggesting Trend Micro Deep Security.

It's kind of hard to point out one single feature, however, if I had to, then I would say that they have a great roll-back feature. You can use this if your machine is compromised. You have the ability to roll it back to the previous good version, so you can actually save, say, 90% to 95% of your data.

The solution is stable. 

You can scale the solution to different versions. 

Technical support is helpful. 

The pricing is a bit expensive. If they want to target SMBs, small enterprises, and small networks, then they need to reduce their prices.

It would be better if they merge a few features into one product. For example, they have an encryption feature that is separately sold. If they could merge it with Apex One or any endpoint security solution, maybe it would also be good for the end user.

I've used the solution for three or four years. 

The solution is very stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

Scalability is possible if you move to different versions. For example, you can move from Apex One to the XDR solution, and then from XDR, you can involve Deep Security. There, it is very much scalable if you want to start from the bottom, from end-point security, and move it up to the servers as well.

We do not really contact technical support. 

Mostly we have technical people over here in our company. And basically, they go to training first to get some certifications from Trend Micro, then they start deploying and installing any product in any network. 

Having said that, sometimes, when we get stuck or after installation and running Trend Micro in the network, if we have a problematic situation where we are not able to solve it, then we do contact Trend Micro support.

They have a two-tier level of support. One is local support available directly from Trend Micro. Then, they also have online support where you can get help directly from their head offices.

Positive

I tend to work with Trend Micro, Kaspersky, and McAfee. I haven't used Microsoft Defender.

The solution is not too difficult and not exactly straightforward. It was a moderate setup. Anyone with a little bit of knowledge of installing antiviruses can actually handle the process. 

I'd rate the ease of setup a two or three out of five. 

I won't call the cost of the solution cheap. Compared to any other antiviruses in the market right now, they are on the expensive side.

I'd rate the level of expense a four out of five, where five is the most expensive option. 

We are a partner. 

If someone is looking to implement security solutions, including endpoint security, then I would suggest that person go for the whole Trend Micro suite, not just for the endpoint security. They have different products for security solutions, including Deep Security, Network Security, Trend, et cetera. If they buy the whole package, it would be easy for them to control their network security-wise and manage it quickly, rather than having a different brand and security solution for different departments or layers of their network.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. There's always a margin to improve both in a technical sense and financially as well. I'm giving them two points less in hopes they'll continue improving their product. 

We use Trend Micro Deep Security for workload security. I also use it for protecting my critical server because it has an intrusion prevention feature.

Trend Micro Deep Security protected us from a ransomware attack two months ago. I can protect my server from ransomware using the product.

What I like best about Trend Micro Deep Security is its ransomware protection feature.

Pricing is on the expensive side and could be more affordable. The technical support for Trend Micro Deep Security also needs improvement.

I've been using Trend Micro Deep Security since 2019. I started using it in my previous company when I was the head of IT there. I transferred to another company nine months ago, and we're also using Trend Micro Deep Security.

Trend Micro Deep Security is very, very stable, and we are happy with this solution.

Trend Micro Deep Security is scalable. We bought 15 licenses for 15 servers. Whenever I want some enhancements, it's very scalable just to buy the license and apply it on the server. You can add it from the portal. It's a very, very scalable product. It's very easy to scale.

Technical support for the product was sometimes good. It could be improved. On a scale of one to five, with five being the best, I'm scoring support a three.

The initial setup for Trend Micro Deep Security was very easy.

Deployment of the product was done by the reseller. He came to my office and deployed Trend Micro Deep Security in all locations, through remote deployment.

Trend Micro Deep Security is quite expensive.

We're on a yearly subscription with Trend Micro Deep Security.

We bought the license with support and all the features. We bought 15 server licenses. I deployed the product on the most critical servers.

We're on the sales-based, software-based, and service-based model with Trend Micro Deep Security.

Most of the financial sectors and banks use Trend Micro Security with XDR, which we're also using. The main reason we selected the product is for its XDR or Extended XDR.

There are multiple products and solutions under Trend Micro. Now I'm evaluating Trend Micro Apex One for endpoint security. We will replace Kaspersky with Trend Micro.

They've already added an additional feature, XDR. They're monitoring my servers at their own SOC, so this is an additional feature, and I don't think there's any need for an additional feature at the moment.

My score for Trend Micro Deep Security, on a scale of one to ten, with one being the worst and ten being the best is nine.

We are service providers for our customers. We are using Trend Micro Deep Security as an anti-malware and as an complete endpoint protection solution for server. The primary use case is data center security.

Our cloud hosting proposal has grown up with Trend Micro endpoint products fron officescan on to Deep Security. We propose it also on premise for our customers.  The antimalware engine is really effective.

This product has many features and it works with every operating system and any kind of endpoint. It's widespread.

Monitoring is good, and they also can protect DevOps/Docker enviroment.

It integrates well with the cloud; for example, AWS, and mow Google Cloud Platform.

One problem with this kind of  products is scaling. If you go on large sites you have to have an external database, which would increase the overall solution cost.

The solution offers many features aside from antimalware, lile Host FE and IDS/IPS, File integrity monitoring and so on, but if you use it to protect deliering agents on hosts you'd better verify the amount of host resources (ram)  utilized by DS agent itself.   

We have been working with this solution for more than five years. We also delivered Deep Discovery suite products ad advanced ATP solution.

At one time we had some issues, but not anymore. It's quite a stable solution.

It's on of the best scalable antimalware solution as the amount of protected endpoints grows.

We have support here in Italy and we contact them directly. We have a good relationship with our local support.

Overall, we are quite satisfied with technical support.

The initial setup is complex.

The time for deployment depends on the size. You have different installations for different sizes.

we integrated it with vendor engineering assistance. The level of their assistance team is high,  they have skilled and expert people

It's more expensive than other endpoint protection solution. It's not the cheapest.

for our customers i also evaluated: Symantec, Kaspersky, Sophos. Bitdefender

I would recommend Trend Micro Deep Security. 

If you need a versatile solution that covers many different needs or requirements, Trend Micro Deep Security is very good. It's a broad-spectrum product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

It's used as a part of our managed solutions. Security is key for them because we have seen a lot of ransomware in the past. We do very well on security side, whether it is application network or a host-based security. This is one of the offerings that we offer to our customer by default.

As it is a core part of our managed services, it integrates with other products which revolve around patch management. We have our own IP which takes care of the actual patch management that we leverage. We also have a lot of monitoring platforms with a single, integrate dashboard taking the data from the APIs.

Previously, a lot of attacks happened. 

Sometimes, you have your files which you don't want anybody to change. With this product, you can monitor that very easily. Therefore, whenever someone tries to play with that file, you receive an alert.

For day-to-day efficiency, it provides a good dashboard, so our team can be active 24/7 instead of doing a lot of manual stuff. We just look at the dashboard, and it's all done.

• Anti-malware
• IPS
• IDS
• Prevention against the ransomware
• File integrated monitoring
• Virtual patching

Every module is important because it serves a different purpose.

Because a lot of vulnerabilities are coming out, we work with a lot of large enterprises using virtual patching. It is very difficult to patch, because you have to take approvals, and go through the cycle, as there is a proper process in place. However, if you have virtual patching, it makes it easier, and you are protected as soon as the patch is released.

It needs to improve its integration with a lot of other products. This should be in the road map because we have a lot of SaaS-based appliances which are not connected with each other. Thus, I'm looking forward to more integrations coming together as a part of the product.

Going forward, I would like to have more APIs and integration with more application monitoring intelligence platforms.

Stability-wise, it is one of the best in the market. However, since a lot of innovation is happening, it comes with a lot of risk as well. Certain times, we have seen where a customer is being attacked irrespective of if the product was there. The reason is that patch is not available. While I know the team who works on it does a lot proactively, sometimes things get missed out.

We have customers in five to six different regions, ranging from Japan, Korea, Singapore, India, and the U.S. We use it for a lot of our customers (about 90 percent). Their size ranges from 500 servers to thousands of servers. We work with a lot of enterprises, including Telco, retail, government sector, and media.

We are very well-connected with our technical support. Most of our team is quite trained on the product. 95 percent of the time, our team doesn't need the technical support team's help.

The integration and configuration in our AWS is user-friendly. When you work with enterprise, you have a multi-cloud strategy. We can deploy it in AWS and use it in other clouds as well. So, it is pretty robust.

In the case of ransomware, every time it happens, for every machine that you have, you have to pay something like $400 USD or more. With Trend Micro, you are paying a couple of dollars every month to save the environment, and you don't have to go into that part where you pay a hacker to get back your data. Therefore, it's a good ROI, though it's an investment.

We are an original partner with AWS, so a couple of customers chose to directly take it from AWS Marketplace. A couple of customers will want us to take care of the billing. So, it's a mixed type of reaction that we receive from the customer. Eventually, for us, it matters that customers are secure.

The customers can deploy in their environment and the licensing model goes through our reseller.

The price is reasonably good as compared to other products into the market.

There are products, like Symantec, but Deep Security from Trend Micro is quite helpful for us. It is being absorbed by a lot of customers, whether they belong to an enterprise or the public sector. It is highly adopted.

We went with Trend Micro because it was more cloud native, the architecture was more on the high availability side of it, and it had the the implementation that we wanted.

Do your evaluation well. After the core evaluation, choose what fits best for your customer.

I used to previously work with on-premise solutions and private cloud. Now, I work with AWS.