IDS and IPS are its most valuable features
It's for security: IDS, IPS, intrusion detection, and securing our perimeter in general. E.g., OWASP rules.
How has it helped my organization?
Trend Micro gave our security teams a certain degree of comfort by just having it in the background, as they have familiarity with the product.
What is most valuable?
IDS and IPS are its most valuable features.
What needs improvement?
AWS products could become more compatible with intrusion detection products leveraging help from Trend Micro.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have had no stability issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability hasn't been an issue.
We have different workloads, so it depends on if we're talking about development, QA, or the testing environment. They are all separate accounts. We have a central account to try to manage all of them. A lot of these type products, like Trend Micro, fit into these shared environments.
Right now, we've got a few production workloads, but most of the workloads are still in development.
What about the implementation team?
Automation is a big part of everything that we do. The team setting it up would have had to set up Chef scripts and other things to make sure that we could automatically deploy. This would have been part of the configuration and management into the AWS environment.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We were looking for a tool to help secure our environment. There wasn't anything immediately available as an AWS native service, so we looked for a third-party tool which could do it.
We would like to see more from AWS natively on the intrusion detection side.
What other advice do I have?
Take a good look at all the different options. If there are things which I think teams are familiar with, that always gives a product a bit of a leg up. This is not just from the perspective of the people who support and deploy the product, but even the security teams who may be already familiar with the product and know how effective it is. It gives them a lot more comfort seeing something that they have some background with.
Our company uses the on-premise and AWS versions. I work with the AWS version, and have been happy with it. I am seeing more of the end result of it rather than the infrastructure and security perimeter.
We decided to use AWS because it was something the teams were familiar with. Our teams, who are currently using Trend Micro, were already familiar with the product and wanted to make use of it in the cloud as well. It was just a matter of continuity.
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