Guess Trend Micro retains full security for its data center and its client

In order to secure its operations, the famous fashion brand Guess has opted for innovative solutions from Trend Micro Inc.. This choice reflects a desire by IT staff to spend less time to countering the threats. On the other hand, managers can curb the threats upstream into the cloud, while the employees do not have to worry about security and can focus on their heart of business.

Over the past 30 years, Guess has established itself as a world leader in the fashion industry and imposed its brand by designing and marketing a wide range of products: clothing, leather goods, watches, shoes and other products for the general public.

Guess the brand has more than 1,500 outlets worldwide. IT management for the Group, the challenge was: to manage an international multi-site from a centralized data center, to ensure compliance with PCI and curb the existing and emerging threats. If the world of fashion can be complex, the IT department of Guess nevertheless wanted a safe simple and easy to manage. Trend Micro has designed a security architecture tailored specifically répondand to all business needs.

First stage of the project

Trend Micro ™ Threat Management Services has allowed Guess to identify and analyze vulnerabilities and security throughout their infrastructure, to precisely define the necessary improvements to their security tools. This process of discovery and successful collaboration with Trend Micro also encouraged to switch to Guess Trend Micro ™ Enterprise Strategy, a portfolio of products targeted at different security issues:

• Endpoint Security (Trend Micro ™ Enterprise Security for Endpoints, with the flagship Trend Micro ™ OfficeScan ™ to protect workstations and file servers)

• Email Security (Trend Micro ™ ScanMail ™ for Microsoft ® Exchange)

• Firewall (Trend Micro ™ Intrusion Defense Firewall)

• Management and monitoring of security (Trend Micro ™ Control Manager ™)

Second stage of the project

More recently, Guess has deployed Trend Micro ™ Deep Security, a security solution that protects servers, operating systems and data on physical servers, virtualized and cloud. Trend Micro Deep Security provides multiple benefits to Guess:

• Increased confidence in the ability of companies to thwart threats.

• Compliance with PCI, with a ready to use protection, strong multiple security features.

• An easy to manage security, and not burdensome.

• Successful completion of tests particularly harsh.

• Flexibility and ease in changing the rules and levels of protection, to have a security policy in line with the business of the group.

• All the benefits of virtualization within the data center, with a security solution that protects physical and virtual servers.

"Every year we appeal to security experts asking them to test the effectiveness of our security. We migrated the security of our client to Trend Micro OfficeScan, and experts have been impressed with the functional qualities of the solution, "said Scott Forrest, Director of Networks and Infrastructure at Guess. "The second year, these experts already knew OfficeScan, and, again, they highlighted the leadership of this solution in terms of endpoint security. Since we deployed Deep Security, they can no longer be listed on servers protected by the solution, which reassured us still more about the relevance of the solution. "