Trend Micro has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Provilla, a provider of fingerprint-based endpoint solutions for data leak prevention (DLP) in organisations. Under the agreement, Provilla will operate as a subsidiary of Trend Micro’s U.S. affiliate. Provilla’s data leak prevention technology and products will enhance the Trend Micro portfolio of multi-layered content-security solutions for business customers. 

“Trend Micro is focused on providing customers with the most useful, centrally-controlled content-security solutions to address the latest unpredictable, malicious threats entering or leaving organisations, and that includes intentional or inadvertent data leaks,” said Eva Chen, CEO and co-founder of Trend Micro. "Solving this growing problem will require broader and deeper insight into the multiple endpoint data leak vulnerabilities and the use of intelligent solutions that can identify sensitive data and prevent its misuse through endpoint devices and channels. The acquisition of Provilla strengthens our ability to execute on our content-security strategy, with technology and products complementing our own.” 

Trend Micro will continue to offer Provilla's stand-alone products for the near term as well as gradually integrate Provilla’s capabilities into its own enterprise, small and medium business solutions.