Trend Micro Deep Security Reviews

Of course, the anti-virus module, the firewall module, and integrity monitoring are the big ones for us. They're the most valuable features that we use daily.

It’s protected our network from viruses, and it’s done a really good job with that. It’s allowed us to set up business rules and notifications on changes to our operating systems and our firewall rules, which is a big piece of our business right now. It’s working really well.

I would like to see a little bit of better means of agent distribution. The ability to deploy agents maybe from the solution itself that would be a good one.

I’d like to see more of a database involved with integrity monitoring, a database that would be developed to identify some of the more well-known processes and files, trends, etc. Anything that would help me do less research would be an improvement.

I've used it for one year.

There were no issues with the deployment.

I would say it’s probably 8 or 9/10. The server operating systems are probably a 9/10, the agent installations on our work stations and servers are an 8 or 9/10, and finally on our laptop computers/remote users the number goes down a little to a 7/10 for stability.

Scaling it has been fine as we haven’t done a whole lot but it seems to handle everything we need it to do. If we doubled in size tomorrow, I’d say it could handle it because the product has the availability to have more than one server with the cost remaining the same. I’d say scalability is very good.

I’d say they are very good, very knowledgeable, and very proactive. It's all good.

I would say it was pretty straightforward. We have a complex network, so if it was complex, it was because of us.

We had an engineer come out and spend a week with us to help everything run smoothly.

I wasn't involved with the process, but I know we looked at a number of other solutions. I know, however, the reasons they went with this solution is because of its compatibility with VMware, which was one of the big factors. Also, the cost was a deciding factor.

I would say that before Trend Micro comes out to install the product, you need to come up with a plan with the product. That could be anti-virus and a good plan of how you want anti-virus to work on your work stations, computers, and servers. I shouldn't just say anti-virus, but also firewall protection, integrity, what exclusions do you want. You want a good plan for each system and that will make the installation much faster. If you have to go back when the person is with you and try to figure it out as you go along, it will slow you down. Get a good plan.

Virtual Patching (part of Integrity Monitoring module) is the most valuable because it shields vulnerabilities in critical systems until an actual patch is available and deployed reducing the downtime, and protecting unpatchable systems extending the life of legacy systems and applications. Also, the possibility to know which files have been changed in the host machine.

The possibility to extend the security of the datacenter to cloud using API integration to AWS, vCloud, Azure and others in a single management console is also valuable.

In the past, we had to search for a window of time to patch the OS and some applications and it took a long time up a virtual machine and make it available for our needs because its update process was very slow. Now, we don’t have to wait for this process because when we need a VM we can just boot one up and run and patch the VM at an opportune time.

We use it to help a large payment company in Brazil to process millions of credit card transactions a day, and others company with similar challenges.

It needs real-time anti-malware support for Amazon Linux and an option that allows you to classify and mark reports using tags like Top Secret or Confidential which are missing in Deep Security 9.5 but are in v9.6, which was released in January. We're still homologating 9.6 version with this new feature.

An improvement on its Control Manager integration is also needed because it's insufficient for individual and granular management. Control Manager is a console that integrates all Trend Micro products.

I've been using it since it was first released in 2010 and have used it in two different ways. At my own company, it's used to protect about 40 VMs on two hosts using VMware. It's also used for installing and supporting 36 clients over 250 servers and millions of transactions per day.

I'm one of the founders of company and I've been working as a technician from the beginning, my role was design, deployment planning and pre-sales support until the end of the last year with our support team. Now, I'm dedicating my time to executing our vision as CEO.

We have had no issues deploying it, especially when following the guides.

It has been stable in our deployments.

We have no issues scaling it when we need to.

Trend Micro has a Channel Partner ecosystem highly prepared to solve any questions and they work very closely with Trend Micro support services to deliver the best experience to their customers.

We did not have anything in place previously.

The deployment depends on how you set up your VMware environment and what features you’re using. Following the steps described in the Administrator and Deployment guides helps you to avoid any complications.

The implementation team was formed with inside analysts and vendor specialists. It's strongly recommended to use someone with the necessary skills to work with VMware and have someone familiar with infrastructure and security analysis.

Start with a small group of servers and the most important modules for your company. Depending on the way you buy the product, you have the benefit of renewing discounts up to 50% in the next year.

It's a hybrid platform with about five modules that will help you to manage and secure your datacenter and cloud initiative with multi-platform support. To get the same solution, you may have to contract at least four different vendors.

We use Trend Micro Deep Security to protect our network, endpoint, email, servers, etc.

The product has robust security features. They release timely updates and have efficient prediction features for threat detection.

It is a stable platform.

We have 5000 Trend Micro Deep Security users. It is a scalable platform.

The technical support services are good.

The initial setup process is straightforward. It requires two to three executives for implementation and takes five minutes to complete.

The end users can implement the product themselves.

We purchased Trend Micro Deep Security's yearly license. It is expensive but reasonable compared to other products by Trend Micro.

I recommend Trend Micro Deep Security to others and rate it a nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for security purposes. 

I cannot speak to any specific feature that has wowed me. 

It serves its purpose and works well.

The initial setup is easy. 

The stability of the product has been good over the last 12 months. 

We have found that the solution scales well.

The cost is very high. it would be ideal if they would work on the pricing.

Technical support could be much better.

The product should be able to host a vulnerability scanner. Right now, we need to pay extra. It would be ideal if they could do a vulnerability scan of my endpoints. 

I've been using the solution for 12 months or so. It's been about a year. 

The stability has been very good in the year that we have used it. I haven't found any issues. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.  It's reliable.

The scalability is very good. If a company needs to expand its usage, it can do so. 

Technical support has been below expectations. They don't seem to be as helpful or responsive as we need them to be. 

The price of the product is high. It's expensive. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. It's been an okay solution, however, there still needs to be more done in certain areas. 

We use the solution for Windows Server on Linux distribution. We have several environments. We use the tool to secure on-premise servers.

I like the anti-malware features. We use it only for the on-premise environment. The tool helps with server protection. The implementation is easy. It provides high security. We have a hundred workloads. It is a good tool. It is easy to use. It has a good dashboard and great features.

The workloads must be better.

I have been using the solution for three years.

The tool has high stability.

The tool’s scalability is good. We can easily scale it. Our clients are small businesses.

The support is good.

Positive

The initial setup was easy. I rate the ease of setup a ten out of ten. The deployment took three days.

I will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

I primarily use the solution for web security and port encryption. It helps protect endpoints. 

The solution offers advanced options for endpoint security. There is predictive machine learning and AI monitoring. 

The endpoint protection is very good at that level. 

It helps protect us from hackers. We're able to add locks on data to protect everything. 

There's useful monitoring on offer.

The logs are quite helpful. 

It easily increases the performance of the servers. It doesn't take a lot of performance away from the server itself. 

It is scalable.

The solution is stable and reliable. 

We'd like to have more application control. It would help us block things more strategically. 

Support could be faster. 

I've used the solution for a while. 

This is a stable solution. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution is scalable. You can expand usage as needed. You just need to buy more licenses. 

We have more than 60 users on the product. 

Technical support typically responds within one hour. They are responsive. Of course, we'd always like faster responses when we are facing issues. 

The initial setup is installed locally. It can be a bit complicated as we have to do it on-premises and we need to gain console access.

We can pay for the license on a yearly basis. If you want to do financing, you can go month by month.

I'd recommend the solution to other companies. If a company has a critical or high-availability server, this is a good product. It's also great for endpoints. It's great for companies with critical services. 

I would rate the solution nine out of ten. We've been happy with how it has been working so far. 

The most valuable feature for us is moving the AV scanning engine to the hypervisor and removing it from the virtual machine. We also use the compliance reporting (reporting in general) feature.

It's given us a significant reduction of CPU/memory footprint required to run traditional AV products inside a virtual machine (VDI).

I'm not sure how this product could improve, although we did have some compatibility issues between it and versions of vSphere.

We've used it for 13 months.

During deployment, we had the issue of compatibility between vSphere and Deep Security.

The stability issue we had was with regard to vSphere.

We had no issues with scalability.

Customer service was initially very poor, but once we reclassified our account from mid-size to enterprise, the support was very good.

Technical support is above average.

We previously used Symantec SAV, but it was too heavy for VDI.

Our initial setup was somewhat complex and required a significant interaction with Trend Micro support. This is a very new concept of taking the AV engine outside the VM and it took us some time to feel comfortable with the whole idea. It also required some deep understanding of how Trend Micro Deep Security “embeds” into a VMware environment, and that was not a easy task to master.

We did the initial setup with our in-house team with significant help from Trend Micro technical support. I'd rate them very poorly because they completely missed the compatibility with vSphere issue. It took us a lot of time to fix the entire mess.

Our ROI is still unclear, but I'll have more details once the entire enterprise is moved to Trend Micro Deep Security.

Get a good reseller (our original VAR, MicroAge, had a difficult time clarifying some of the licensing vs. maintenance costs).

ESET and Symantec

Make sure your VMware SME is plugged in from the very beginning, do a limited low-level impact POC, and plug into the Trend Micro user community.

The most valuable feature for us is mainly the fact that we can control what the PC or server is doing protection-wise, even remotely. We use this protection feature all the time.

The main benefit it provides us is that it will show what the issues might be and it's scalable. It allows us to know that if we have an issue somewhere on one device or endpoint, we can correct it or get down to a level where we can find out what the problem is. For example, we can apply exclusions to set policies for a certain type of group that can scale for a lot of environments, whether it's Linux or Windows servers or Windows 10 endpoints.

I'd like to see some sort of database out-of-the-box. Deep Security uses its own database, with which we have some issues, but we just go right to SQL or another database. Right now, the standard database as to be converted to SQL or Oracle, but that's something that should be out-of-the-box standard.

We've used it for four years.

We've had no issues with deployment, other than the database issue.

We had one failure, but it came back up within twenty minutes, so we've really had no downtime.

Yes, it's been scalable. In the coming year, we're going to be testing many more policies and deploying it out in our system.

The setup was a little complex on the security side. But the endpoints -- desktops, laptops, were pretty easy. The server environments were a little more complicated and in-depth.

We implemented with a vendor team.

We very much have an ROI, and although I don't have numbers, I can see that we've been able to catch problems before they happen.

Make sure you perform thorough testing as there were different situations that came up for us that we didn't account for. I think that a POC would really be worth the investment because you can find out what the structure can do and what it can't. That's really important.