Trend Micro Incorporated announces a partnership with Intel to bolster the defenses of their enterprise customers against stealthy threats, including fileless malware and advanced ransomware.
By combining Trend’s proactive security platform with Intel’s cutting-edge technology, this integrated solution can distinguish between legitimate encryption activities—like file backups—and malicious ones, ensuring critical systems are protected.
Carla Rodriguez, Intel VP, noted that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting endpoints with sophisticated attacks that evade traditional security measures. Trend Micro’s integration of Intel® Threat Detection Technology provides a hardware-accelerated detection layer to identify these elusive threats. This AI-based silicon security solution, deployed across a billion PCs, is unique.
According to Rodriguez, mutual customers benefit from enhanced protection through Trend Micro’s AI-powered Trend Vision One™ Endpoint solutions on Intel AI PCs.
The challenge of protecting critical assets across endpoints, email, networks, and cloud workloads has intensified as malicious actors prefer covert methods such as fileless malware. In 2023, 40% of attacks reportedly involved fileless malware, which can deploy ransomware, steal sensitive data, and cause significant financial and reputational damage.
Fileless attacks are particularly dangerous because they operate in memory, reside in the registry, or exploit legitimate tools like PowerShell and Windows Management Instrumentation.
By combining the AI–powered Trend Vision One with Intel’s tech, this collaboration equips organizations with powerful tools to detect and respond to ransomware and fileless attacks before they cause damage.
Zaheer Ebrahim, Solutions Architect at Trend Micro Middle East and Africa, explained that while proactive security has long been desired, it has only recently become feasible. Through their collaboration with Intel, they’re redefining cybersecurity possibilities, empowering enterprises to proactively protect their systems, data, and operations against an increasingly complex threat landscape.
