Company encourages development ofcritical capabilities to address global skills shortage

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 2 August2018 - Trend MicroIncorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader incybersecurity solutions, today announced its fourth annual Capture The Flag(CTF) competition, which invites teams from around the world to demonstratetheir skills and challenge their knowledge in today's most critical areas ofcybersecurity protection. The Trend Micro CTF 2018 -- Raimund Genes Cup is oneof several ways the company works to motivate and train talent to support thecritical industry need.

"AtTrend Micro, we have always been passionate about fighting the bad guys to makethe world safer for exchanging digital information, and skilled professionalsare imperative to make that a reality," said Eva Chen, chief executive officerfor Trend Micro. "We recognized there was a growing need for more strongprofessionals, so four years ago we began our global CTF to encourage anddevelop these critical skills in young professionals. By honing thesecapabilities in more professionals we are doing our part to minimize the skillsshortage."

Theannual global CTF helps participants develop and hone their skills in today'smost critical areas of need, including cybercrimes, targeted attacks, Internetof Things (IoT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS).

TrendMicro hosts nearly 20 CTFs each year around the world, including the main globalevent, as well as hosting 10 contests in collaboration with the Organization ofAmerican States[1], whichare specific to women across Latin America.

Beyondthis event, Trend Micro operates a number of additional initiatives thatsupport skills development. The company recruits and trains new cybersecurityprofessionals in five global centers, located in the United States, Canada,Brazil, Czech Republic and Egypt. These centers recruit individuals from bothtechnical and non-technical backgrounds with no specific cybersecurityexperience required. After completing a comprehensive cybersecurity trainingprogram, the individuals receive job offers from strategic partners andcustomers, as well as Trend Micro, to fill the need for more trained practitionersacross the industry. In total, Trend Micro will support the development of morethan 2,500 new cybersecurity professionals by 2022, to counteract the 1.8million skills shortage projected by Frost & Sullivan.[2]

"Alack of qualified professionals is the most consistent security concern we hearfrom businesses," said Mark Liggett, Senior Security Analyst from TulaneUniversity. "Trend Micro is one of very few global companies that is activelyworking to help change this. Equipping new professionals from all walks of lifeis key to helping more businesses effectively manage their security stack andmitigate the risk of attack."

Thisyear's CTF consists of two rounds, an online qualifier and the finals. Takingplace on September 15-16, the online qualifier will include Jeopardy stylequestions that challenge teams to solve various security problems quickly. Thetop 10 teams will qualify for the finals, which will take place in Tokyo, Japanon December 15-16. The finals presents both King of the Hill and Jeopardy-stylequestions to further test the teams' skills.

Thewinning team from the finals receives JPY1,000,000, which is about USD $9,000,along with 15,000 Zero Day Initiative Rewards Program points per player. Thesecond and third place teams receive JPY300,000 and JPY200,000, which is nearlyUSD $3,000 and $2,000 respectively.

Toregister a team for the online qualifier, please visit: www.trendmicro.com/tmctf.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leaderin cybersecurity solutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digitalinformation. Our innovative solutions for consumers, businesses, andgovernments provide layered security for data centers, cloud environments,networks, and endpoints. All our products work together to seamlessly sharethreat intelligence and provide a connected threat defense with centralizedvisibility and control, enabling better, faster protection. With over 6,000employees in over 50 countries and the world's most advanced global threatintelligence, Trend Micro secures your connected world. For more information,visit www.trendmicro.com.hk.