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2000 Trend Company Fact sheet

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Trend Micro is a leader in Internet content security. Its products protect the flow of information on PCs, file servers, email servers and at the Internet gateway, providing a complete centrally-controlled VirusWall for enterprise computer networks. Trend Micro also delivers a range of web-based services for consumer and corporate users, including email and web content filtering and the remote management of network antivirus protection.

Building security into the infrastructure of the Internet, Trend Micro has launched the eDoctor Global Network, joining with leading service providers (ASPs, ISPs, MSPs and telcos) to deliver value-added Internet content security services to their customers. British Telecom, Sprint and US WEST are just a few of the Internet giants which have joined this worldwide initiative. Trend Micro is also entering the burgeoning market of Internet infrastructure software. A new subsidiary, ipTrend, is developing Linux-based solutions for use in e-commerce.

Founded in 1988 by Steve Chang, Trend Micro has grown into a global company with over 700 employees in 15 countries. Sales soared by an average of 80% per year in its first decade, reaching US$134.5m in 1999. Corporate headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan, with business units in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

The company went public with a highly successful IPO on the Japanese over-the-counter market in 1998 and was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. As of March 2000, the company's market capitalization exceeded US$13.9 billion.

Trend Micro has earned a solid reputation for transforming great ideas into cutting-edge technology. Industry-leading publications have repeatedly hailed its innovative, effective solutions. The Gartner Group cites Trend Micro's strategy, vision, and business acumen for upsetting the status quo in the virus management market. It has positioned Trend Micro as the most visionary malicious code management supplier every year since 1997.

Industry Internet infrastructure 
software and services 
including antivirus and 
Internet content security 
solutions
Traded Japan OTC Market (4704),
NASDAQ (TMIC)
Chairman & CEO Steve Chang
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Overseas Subsidiaries 11 (12/99)
Number of Employees 699 (12/99)
Founded 1988, CA, US
IPO Japan OTC: August, 1998
Listed NASDAQ: July, 1999
Shares Outstanding 65, 005,660 shares 
outstanding (2/29/00)
1999 Revenue 13,741 million Yen
(US$134,505K at exchange rate of JP?02.16/USD)

  • The Core Business Division focuses on channel sales of Trend Micro's "best of breed" enterprise antivirus and security products and services.
  • The Internet Outsourcing Services Division (IOS) concentrates on outsourcing value-added services to service providers, including ASPs, ISPs, MSPs and telcos.
  • The New Business Division handles Internet-related investments and acquisitions.


Trend Micro provides centrally controlled, server-based computer virus and malicious code protection. Protecting all possible virus entry points on the network, Trend Micro offers customers a complete Internet content security solution.

InterScan VirusWall scans SMTP, HTTP and FTP traffic for computer viruses.

  • InterScan eManager , a plug-in for InterScan VirusWall, filters out spam and screens message content.
  • InterScan AppletTrap protects against malicious Java applets, ActiveX controls and web scripts.
  • InterScan WebManager filters, secures and manages Internet traffic.

ScanMail scans email messages on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus cc:Mail and HP OpenMail servers.

ServerProtect provides antivirus protection for Windows NT and Novell NetWare servers to prevent virus-infected files from being copied to shared drives or infecting archives during back-up procedures.

OfficeScan provides antivirus scanning on workstations throughout a company with central management and reporting via a web-based management console.

PC-cillin is an antivirus scanning program for home computers. In addition to conventional file, boot and macro viruses, PC-cillin protects against malicious Java applets, ActiveX controls and web scripts.

The Trend Micro families of content security products can be managed by the Trend Virus Control System (TVCS ) - a web-based HTML console that coordinates the functions of most Trend Micro products over multiple user sites. Administrators can use TVCS to install, update, upgrade and configure Trend Micro software running on their networks.


Trend Micro has a widespread network of partnerships and strategic alliances with some of the most respected names in the IT industry including: Check Point, Cisco Systems, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, ISS, Lotus and Lucent Technologies.


Trend Micro's security solutions have been chosen by leading companies such as Boeing, Bank of America, Hewlett-Packard, Chase Manhattan Corp., Lucent Technologies, GTE, ConAgra, Coca-Cola, MCI WorldCom, UAL, Sprint and Electronic Data Systems.

2000 ServerProtect, OfficeScan and Trend VCS awarded Editor's Choice by PC Professionell, the PC Magazine of Germany
2000 ScanMail for Exchange named Best Buy by SECURE Computing Magazine
1999 ServerProtect won Windows NT 1999 Editor's Choice award
1999 PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award for best antivirus solution
1999 ScanMail for Lotus Notes and Exchange won PC Expert's award in email category
1999 Network Computing Editor's Choice award for the best antivirus solution
1999 Trend Micro's network antivirus solution: Declared InfoWorld's "Product of the Year"
1999 OfficeScan Corporate Edition: Recommended by SECURE Computing Magazine
1999 InterScan VirusWall and eManager: Declared Sm@rt Choice by Sm@rt Reseller Magazine
1999 PC-cillin 6: WinList, Windows Magazine
1999 Trend Virus Control System: Highly Commended, SECURE Computing
1999 InterScan VirusWall: Editor's Choice award, Network Week Magazine
1999 Trend Virus Control System: Product of the Year award, Network Magazine
1999 Trend NeaTSuite: Editor's Choice award, PC Magazine
1999 InterScan VirusWall: Editor's Choice award, Network Computing Magazine

 

 

 

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