Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption

Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption is a highly robust, deeply established enterprise security platform that focuses on providing a massive, holistic shield over corporate data, whether that data resides on a physical hard drive, is copied to a USB stick, or is burned to a CD/DVD (a critical requirement in highly regulated, legacy industries like healthcare imaging or government records). It provides both full disk encryption and highly granular file/folder encryption capabilities. A major differentiator for Trend Micro is its highly advanced "Policy-Based Encryption." An IT administrator can configure the central management server to execute incredibly specific rules. For example, a policy can state: "If a user belongs to the 'Finance' Active Directory group, automatically encrypt any file they save that contains the word 'Confidential', regardless of where they save it." This ensures that highly sensitive intellectual property is encrypted at the file level, meaning it remains secure even if it is emailed out of the company or uploaded to a personal cloud drive. Furthermore, Trend Micro is highly respected for its "Consumerization of IT" capabilities. It recognizes that employees often use their personal, unmanaged USB drives at work. Trend Micro can automatically force these unmanaged drives to be encrypted with a password, but also installs a lightweight "reader" application onto the USB drive. This allows the employee to take the USB drive home, plug it into their personal, non-corporate computer, and securely access the encrypted files by entering the password, without needing to install Trend Micro software on their home PC.