Trend Micro Launches Managed Detection and Response Service

Trend Micro's new managed service looks to provide organizations with threat hunting and response capabilities. Trend Micro announced on June 19 a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service to assist security operations teams. MDR provides managed cyber-security services that benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to help detect threats. The new service is not intended to replace an organization's existing security team, but rather is being positioned as a complementary approach. "Trend Micro’s Managed Detection and Response service is meant to augment an organization’s existing security operations team, delivering managed threat hunting … for our customers," Steve Neville, director of global strategy for Trend Micro, told eWEEK. here is a significant skills shortage when it comes to security talent, and Trend Micro’s MDR service is an effort to help organizations that might not have all the security staff they need, according to Neville. The MDR service prioritizes and correlates alerts from protected networks endpoints, servers and cloud workloads, Neville said. In addition, he noted that the service provides an investigation of prioritized alerts alongside a remediation plan with Trend Micro security experts.