Overview
Trend Micro solutions offer endpoint, server, and cloud security, generating a wealth of logs that are crucial for threat detection, compliance, and operational insights. ManageEngine Log360 integrates seamlessly with Trend Micro products like Deep Security, Control Manager, and Apex One, providing centralized visibility and intelligent analytics of their logs.
By collecting and analyzing logs from Trend Micro environments, Log360 helps detect malware infections, unauthorized changes, policy violations, and suspicious activity. The platform transforms raw Trend Micro logs into actionable insights, empowering security teams to strengthen defenses, ensure audit readiness, and swiftly respond to potential incidents.
How Log360 collects and analyzes Trend Micro logs
Log360 supports multiple ingestion methods for acquiring logs from Trend Micro environments.
Collection methods
- Syslog forwarding: Configure Trend Micro products (e.g., Apex One or Deep Security) to forward event data to Log360 via Syslog (UDP/TCP).
- Custom log parsing (when required): Log360 includes native support for standard Trend Micro Syslog formats. Custom parsing is only necessary when:
- Logs are modified by third-party aggregators or forwarded in non-standard formats.
- Custom event fields or proprietary alert types are included.
- Non-Syslog or hybrid log sources are used for Trend Micro events.
Log processing pipeline
Once collected, Trend Micro logs are normalized; enriched with metadata (e.g., user, host, and event context); categorized into threat, system, and policy types; and correlated with logs from other sources within Log360. This enables security teams to perform real-time alerting, threat detection, forensic investigation, and compliance reporting from a unified SIEM console.
Monitoring capabilities
Log360 collects and analyzes Trend Micro logs across several key event categories:
- Threat events: Malware detection logs, including spyware, ransomware, Trojans, and behavior monitoring events
- System events: Service start/stop notifications, agent communication logs, updates to security modules, and error logs
- Policy violations: Logs on unauthorized file access, blocked applications, or web reputation violations
- User login activity: User login attempts, both successful and failed (including unauthorized access attempts), to identify potential credential misuse
- Configuration changes: Modifications to scan settings, exclusions, firewall rules, or device control policies
Critical Trend Micro events monitored
Log360 tracks and reports on key security events from Trend Micro, including:
- Threat detection: Virus and malware detections, exploit prevention triggers, and suspicious object detection
- Endpoint actions: Agent status updates, quarantine actions, and real-time scan outcomes
- Policy actions: Violated rules, blocked applications or URLs, and firewall rule breaches
- User authentication: Console logins, administrative access, and role-based privilege changes
Key benefits of integrating Trend Micro with Log360
Log360 delivers strong value by enhancing Trend Micro log visibility through its SIEM capabilities:
- Centralized visibility: View logs from all Trend Micro modules in one dashboard.
- Proactive threat detection: Get real-time alerts for malware events and abnormal patterns.
- Improved incident response: Correlate Trend Micro events with user and network activity to trace the full attack path.
- Enhanced compliance: Generate audit-ready reports to satisfy regulatory standards such as the PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the ISO 27001.
- Operational monitoring: Identify update issues, agent failures, or scan errors before they escalate.
Addressing Trend Micro security and compliance challenges
ManageEngine Log360 effectively resolves common challenges faced in Trend Micro security and compliance management. Here's how:
| Challenges |
How Log360 helps |
| Missed malware activity |
Real-time alerts for new malware, ransomware, and suspicious behaviors |
| Inconsistent logging across endpoints |
Centralized log collection from all Trend Micro instances |
| Audit difficulties |
Prebuilt reports and searchable logs for compliance reporting |
| Admin misuse or unauthorized changes |
Alerts for unauthorized access or policy modifications |
| Weak endpoint visibility |
Correlation with network, user, and cloud events for context |
The Log360 advantage: Extending visibility beyond endpoint security
Log360 extends the value of Trend Micro log monitoring by placing endpoint events in a broader security context. Rather than operating in silos, Trend Micro data is correlated with logs from across your IT environment to deliver comprehensive threat detection and response capabilities.
- Cross-environment correlation: Correlate Trend Micro events with data from firewalls, servers, identity providers, cloud services, and other infrastructure components to uncover complex attack patterns and lateral movement.
- Behavioral analytics with UEBA: Leverage UEBA to baseline normal activity on endpoints and automatically flag deviations that may indicate insider threats or compromised accounts.
- Integrated threat intelligence: Enrich Trend Micro logs with global threat intelligence feeds to detect known malicious IPs, domains, and file hashes, improving your ability to identify and respond to targeted attacks.
- Centralized security operations: Manage endpoint, network, and cloud security logs from a unified SIEM console. Streamline investigations, accelerate incident response, and simplify compliance reporting through a single pane of glass.
Explore Trend Micro use cases
Want to see how Log360 strengthens endpoint security? Explore use cases such as detecting ransomware, identifying insider misuse, and automating Trend Micro audit reporting with Log360.
