Cloud Computing: Trend Micro Expands its Consumer Strategy Beyond Internet Security
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Trend Micro Incorporated, is broadening its consumer strategy beyond Internet Security to help home users connect and work online, effortlessly. With 25 years of expertise in the security industry and proven success with its Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud computing security infrastructure, Trend Micro is uniquely positioned to protect consumers in all aspects of their digital lives and evolve the consumer security industry to protect an array of devices, data, people and privacy.
With the multitude of devices and platforms that people are using today, consumers are connected more than ever before.Within the past five years, laptop sales have outpaced desktop PC sales. Mobile phones are now personal computers that have the ability to record moments and take pictures. Tablets have become the new "need to have" personal device. With the multitude of devices and platforms – people are always online. While online banking and shopping are still prominent, they are eclipsed by the rise in social networking. The evolution of devices, operating systems and uses for data has created a new set of security issues that, until today, have gone unresolved…
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