New Industrial IPS solution draws upon the best from Trend Micro and Moxa to protect hard to secure devices and smart factories

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - April 3, 2019 - Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704),a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, and Moxa, aleader in industrial communication and networking, preview their first jointly developed security offering. The new Industrialintrusion prevention system (IPS), which is in beta version, detects and blockscommon exploits and provides whitelisting control in operational technology(OT) environments. It will be shown at Hannover Messe, taking place from April1 -- 5, in Hannover, Germany.

"In five short months sinceformalizing our industrial security joint venture, we are happy to show-off oursolution for tackling security weaknesses prevalent across industrialenvironments," said Eva Chen, CEO for Trend Micro which is the majority partnerin TxOne Networks. "We listened to the needs of both leading manufactures andcritical infrastructures operators then harvested the best intellectualproperty existing within the partner companies. The result is a customizedanswer that goes beyond traditional security tools to mitigate the complexchallenges."

Mission critical machines are gettingconnected as the world adopts modern manufacturing. Some of these are legacydevices were designed before connectivity was possible so they lack securitylayers, and in many cases it's inconvenient to install patches and updates aswell. They are fundamentally exposed to both highly targeted attacks of thesort that hit US utility firms last year, and 'unintentional' raids likeWannaCry and NotPetya that have caused billions of dollars' worth of damage.

Trend Micro Research has shown howhackers can easily exploit OT devices' lack of proper authentication to causemajor damage. That's why TxOne Networks' Industrial IPS not only providesvirtual patch protection but also supports protocol whitelisting in order toshield the relatively weak authentication.

Industrial Control System (ICS)vulnerabilities are easily exploited and being found in ever greater numbers.However, neither perimeter-based firewalls nor ICS detection or OT assetmanagement tools can prevent lateral movement and internal infection. Aperimeter firewall isn't enough when a compromised universal serial bus (USB)or laptop gets introduced and potentially propagates malware. 

"Innovationcan expose new security weaknesses and such is the case with Industry 4.0. Weare seeing efficiencies and the economic advantages, but adopters need toconsider the security implications and design networks, technologies, processesand reporting lines that will address the new environment," said Dr TerenceLiu, general manager for TxOne Networks. "As the most holistic security answerfor these environments, our solution can help. TxOne Networks shelters both thehardware and software advancements of Industry 4.0 firms and ourdefense-in-depth capabilities set our solution apart from others."

These are the key features includedfrom a centrally managed console:

• Certified industrial-grade hardware to support large fluctuationsin temperature
• Threat detection and blocking to mitigate worm propagation
• Protocol whitelisting control to prevent APT and DoS attackersfrom taking advantage of legacy equipment lacking effective authentication
• Virtual patching to shield vulnerable OT devices

To find outmore about Trend Micro's IoT security solutions, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/us/iot-security.

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Trend Micro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecuritysolutions, helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Ourinnovative solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments provide layeredsecurity for data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. All ourproducts work together to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide aconnected threat defense with centralized visibility and control, enablingbetter, faster protection. With more than 6,000 employees in over 50 countriesand the world's most advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro enablesorganizations to secure their journey to the cloud. For more information,visit www.trendmicro.com.hk.