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Transitioning to Trend Vision One Cloud Posture

A high-level guide for existing Cloud One and Conformity Standalone customers to transition to using Trend Micro Vision One Cloud Posture, part of Trend Micro's Attack Surface Risk Management feature set.

User Scenarios

  • New Trend Micro customer interested in Vision One Cloud Posture
  • Existing Trend Vision One customer interested in Vision One Cloud Posture
  • Existing Trend Cloud One Conformity or Standalone Conformity customer interested in enhanced Vision One features
  • Existing Cloud One or Standalone Conformity customer interested in using the Vision One Cloud Data Forwarder

Deciding which path best suits your organization

Your organization's timeline for transitioning from existing Cloud Security Posture Managemnt (CSPM) offerings to using Vision One Cloud Posture depends on your required feature set and ability to manage the new applications.

For a summary analysis of the parity between different Trend Micro CSPM offerings, refer to our Cloud Posture Feature Parity document.

As a first step, we encourage you to trial running a new instance of Vision One Cloud Posture in parallel to your existing instance of Conformity. The default onboarding and custom roles for Cloud Posture support independant parallel scanning.

Vision One Cloud Posture

Trend Vision One Cloud Posture is a natively integrated Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) feature set embedded in the Trend Vision One platform. Cloud Posture forms part of the Attack Surface Risk Management suite of Vision One features.

Based on your user scenario, follow the high level steps outlined below.

New or Existing Trend Micro customer interested in Cloud Posture

  1. Visit the Trend Vision One website, and either test drive Vision One or sign up for a free trial.
  2. Sign in to your Trend Vision One account.
  3. Optional: Set up SSO by Adding your Identity Provider.
  4. In the left-hand menu under Attack Surface Risk Management > Cloud Posture > Cloud Posture Overview > Add Cloud Accounts.
    • Alternatively, add your AWS Organization under Attack Surface Risk Management > Cloud Posture > Cloud Posture Overview and then select Organization.

Existing Cloud One Conformity or Standalone Conformity User Interested in Vision One Cloud Posture

As an exiting Cloud One or Standalone Conformity customer, you can start using Vision One Cloud Posture in parallel to your existing instance.

  1. Visit the Trend Vision One website, and either test drive Vision One or sign up for a free trial.
  2. Sign in to your Trend Vision One account.
  3. Optional: Set up SSO by Adding your Identity Provider.
  4. In the left-hand menu under Attack Surface Risk Management > Cloud Posture > Cloud Posture Overview > Add Cloud Accounts.
    • Alternatively, add your AWS Organization under Attack Surface Risk Management > Cloud Posture > Cloud Posture Overview and then select Organization.
    • Note: the onboarding of Cloud Accounts in Vision One will not interfere with your existing Conformity Role configuration and can be run in parallel

Activating Trend Vision One for Cloud One Customers**

To Activate, in your Trend Vision One account:

  1. Go to the Trend Micro Activation Service.
  2. Select Trend Vision One as your Existing Trend Micro Solution.
  3. Enter the Trend Cloud One API key value with Read Only permission.
  4. Follow the prompts on the Activation Service to activate your Vision One account.

    Reach out to your sales representative or technology partner if you cannot use your existing license for your Vision One account activation.

  5. Follow the steps in the section Vision One Cloud Posture.

Existing Cloud One Conformity or Standalone Conformity User Interested in the Cloud Data Forwarder

The Cloud Data Forwarder is a simple way to integrate existing Cloud One Conformity and standalone Conformity data directly into Vision One, while still managing your CSPM organziation in a separate application. Vision One integration for existing Cloud One or Standalone Conformity customers allows Conformity data to be forwarded directly to Vision One Attack Surface Risk Management.

For the full steps on integrating the Cloud Data Forwarder, visit here.