#3 Trend Micro:

At number 3, it’s a company that clearly has been marked as the dark horse within the security sector- Trend Micro.

Trend Micro is a Japanese security software company. It is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and markets Trend Micro Internet Security, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security, OfficeScan, and other related security products and services. Eva Chen has been CEO for the company since 2005 succeeding Steve Chang, who is now Chairman.

Trend Micro competes in the antivirus industry against Avira, BullGuard, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec, Norman Safeground among others.

Trend Micro is also a certificate authority and member of the CA/Browser Forum, the industry standards group founded by Melih Abdulhayoglu of the Comodo Group.

But lately the company has been going down in terms of sales as such Gartner has marked the company’s revenue tag at $1.1 billion with a growth rate of -2.7 percent in the last fiscal year. Trend Micro is also the only company to have a down growth among the top 5. In 2012 the market shares peaked at 6.1 percent.

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