{"id":46100,"date":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:uuid:3edf1140-55b5-a2ab-e07b-61ef8ca88052"},"modified":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T00:00:00","slug":"tm-named-cws-strong-performer-in-forrester-wave-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/tm-named-cws-strong-performer-in-forrester-wave-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"TM Named CWS “Strong Performer” in Forrester Wave 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If organizations weren\u2019t committed to the cloud before the pandemic, they certainly are now. Two years of sometimes gale-force business headwinds, market uncertainty and operational adversity have confirmed the criticality of cloud to boardroom leaders. By April 2021, a third of global organizations said they were running more than 50% of their workloads in the cloud. By this fall, it\u2019s estimated<\/a> that over half (56%) of enterprises worldwide will be. That\u2019s why Trend Micro has made cloud security a priority, offering a comprehensive range of solutions from a single integrated security services platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We were recognized as a strong performer in cloud workload security (CWS) by Forrester in its recent report, The Forrester Wave\u2122: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022. The good news for Trend Micro customers is that our capabilities go even further than the boundaries of this evaluation.<\/p>\n

Securing the cloud<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no secret to the success of cloud. By offering businesses the flexibility, scale and IT agility to support remote working, streamline processes and deliver innovative new services, it quickly became invaluable during the pandemic. From an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) perspective, cloud service provider (CSP) platforms have enabled DevOps teams to accelerate time-to-value, enabling their organization to continue delivering innovative services amidst rapidly evolving market demand.<\/p>\n

But this evolution does bring challenges. The same cloud systems that deliver so much can also create new complexities for the IT department to navigate. An overabundance of functionality makes misconfiguration commonplace, potentially exposing critical assets. Most organizations invest in platforms from multiple cloud security providers and blend public cloud with private cloud and on-premises environments, adding further complexity and siloes.<\/p>\n

Maintaining all of these securely requires a skillset even the largest organizations struggle to achieve, and security point products working across these environments leave plenty of coverage gaps for the bad guys to hide in. It all adds up to a perfect storm of cloud risk.<\/p>\n

These are the challenges that Trend Micro Cloud One was made to tackle. In fact, the opening of the Forrester report, The Forrester Wave\u2122: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, states:<\/p>\n

\u201cForrester sees end-user organizations increasingly preferring suite providers. Instead of disparate tools, suite providers offer cloud workload protection (CWP), runtime and pre-runtime container security, and cloud security posture management (CSPM). CSPM covers not just configurations but also cloud platform administrative identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delivering value<\/span><\/p>\n

To compile the report, Forrester rigorously evaluated 12 security vendors across 33 criteria across three distinct categories: current offering, strategy and market presence. Trend Micro is rated a \u201cStrong Performer\u201d and tied for the second highest score in the strategy category. Trend Micro was also the only vendor to receive the highest possible score in the market presence category.<\/p>\n

Other notes in the report included:<\/p>\n