First of its kind partnership begins with integrated shield and fix approach to open source vulnerabilities for DevOps

HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - October 10, 2019 - Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader incybersecurity solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Snyk, the leader in developer-first opensource security. The partnership will focus on solving the unrelenting challengethat open source vulnerabilities create for developers, stemming fromcode-reuse, public repositories and open source.

Together, Trend Micro and Snyk will help businesses manage therisk of vulnerabilities without interrupting the software delivery process. Thecombination of open source vulnerability intelligence from Snyk and Trend Microwill result in the most comprehensive ability to detect vulnerabilities forteams operating in a DevOps environment. Once vulnerabilities in containers areidentified, Trend Micro is the shield and Snyk is the fix that combine forstreamlined remediation and risk mitigation.

"When it comes to DevOps, Trend Micro gets it," said GevaSolomonovich, chief operating officer at Snyk. "We're excited to partner withTrend Micro to bring their enterprise customers an easy and scalable way to fixopen source vulnerabilities. Together, we will continue to help organizationsimprove their ability to find vulnerabilities earlier in the developmentprocess and provide options for how to mitigate and prevent risk in softwaredevelopment."

One of the key challenges for enterprise customers today is theneed for speed in developing applications. Speed and efficiency is gained byleveraging open source code. Gartner reports,¹ "Open-sourcesoftware is used within mission-critical IT workloads by over 95% of the ITorganizations worldwide, whether they are aware of it or not." Research from Snykalso found that those vulnerabilities in open source libraries are growingrapidly, nearly doubling in two years.²

"Snyk's approach and trust they've built directly with thedevelopment community is unmatched," said Kevin Simzer, chief operating officerat Trend Micro. "Our collaboration demonstrates both companies' understandingof the tools developers need and how we can provide security without getting intheir way. This strategic partnership is the start of future collaboration aswe both work to secure the DevOps workflow."

Additional terms of the ongoing partnership and productintegration will be announced in November, 2019. For more information pleasevisit: https://www.trendmicro.com/snyk.

[1] Gartner, Inc.; WhatInnovation Leaders Must Know About Open-Source Software; 26 August 2019 |G00441577

[2] Snyk, Inc.; 2019 State ofOpen Source Security 
https://snyk.io/blog/88-increase-in-application-library-vulnerabilities-over-two-years/

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