Organizations have access to free content to educate teams on critical threats

HONGKONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - 3 June2019 - Trend MicroIncorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecuritysolutions, today announced partnerships with several leading cybersecuritytraining providers to help businesses protect their employees from the latestcyber threats. To ensure customers have a wide variety of training styles andformats, Trend Micro is teaming up with four leading partners:  NINJIO, InfoSec, NextTech Security, and  GoldPhish.

Thenew training materials are available on Trend Micro's PhishInsight tool, which is a free, highly flexible security awarenesssolution. This new educational platform will offer customers a diverse libraryof training content to enhance employee awareness initiatives and armorganizations with the resources they need to improve overall enterprisesecurity.

"Allbusinesses today are susceptible to socially engineered phishing emails and BECattacks, which can cause severe financial and reputational damage," said WendyMoore, vice president of product marketing for Trend Micro. "We want to helpmake the digital world safer, and have partnered with four leadingorganizations from around the world to offer educational resources tocomplement our free Phish Insight tool. Adding educational resources allowcompanies to not only test their employees' security awareness, but alsoimprove this awareness."

ReportedBEC attacks cost global businesses nearly $1.3 billionin 2018, more than any other threat category, and phishing emails are linked toa third ofdata breaches and 94% of malware occurring last year. The latestimprovements to Phish Insight will enable businesses to better train staff tocurb the impact of these threats.

Inline with customer feedback, Trend Micro is working with multiple proventraining providers to offer a wide range of content to fit the broadestpossible variety of organizational cultures -- whether that's a moreconservative teaching style or animated story telling. Some firms will prefermicro learning experiences for their employees whereas other will prefer longermore detailed training sessions, the key is to have enough choice to meet thisdemand.

Customerswill have access to the content that best fits their needs with no contracts orsubscriptions, completely free for the first six months during a beta period.

Formore information on the new resources and free phishing simulation tool, pleasevisit https://phishinsight.trendmicro.com/en/training.

About Trend Micro

TrendMicro Incorporated, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, helps to makethe world safe for exchanging digital information. Our innovative solutions forconsumers, businesses, and governments provide layered security for datacenters, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. All our products worktogether to seamlessly share threat intelligence and provide a connected threatdefense with centralized visibility and control, enabling better, fasterprotection. With more than 6,000 employees in over 50 countries and the world'smost advanced global threat intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations tosecure their journey to the cloud. Formore information, visit www.trendmicro.com.hk.