Trend Micro, Inc.
April 2019
Trend Micro Apex Central™ 2019 R1
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Trend Micro Apex Central™ is a centralized management console that manages Trend Micro products and services at the gateway, mail server, file server, and corporate desktop levels. Administrators can use the policy management feature to configure and deploy product settings to managed products and endpoints. The Apex Central web-based management console provides a single monitoring point for antivirus and content security products and services throughout the network.
Apex Central enables system administrators to monitor and report on activities such as infections, security violations, or virus/malware entry points. System administrators can download and deploy update components throughout the network, helping ensure that protection is consistent and up to date. Example update components include virus pattern files, scan engines, and anti-spam rules. Apex Central allows both manual and pre-scheduled updates, and allows the configuration and administration of products as groups or as individuals for added flexibility.
For more information, go to:
http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/apex-central.aspx
Apex Central 2019 includes the following new features and enhancements:
Integration with Endpoint Sensor allows you to monitor, record, and perform both current and historical security investigations on your Apex One endpoints. Use the Apex Central console and perform preliminary investigations to locate at-risk endpoints before executing an in-depth Root Cause Analysis to identify the attack vectors.
Integration with Application Control provides Apex One users with advanced application blocking and endpoint lockdown capabilities. You can run application inventories and create policy rules that only allow specific applications to execute on your endpoints. You can also create application control rules based on application category, vendor, or version.
Integration with Vulnerability Protection protects Apex One users by automating the application of virtual patches before official patches become available. Trend Micro provides protected endpoints with recommended Intrusion Prevention rules based on your network performance and security priorities.
Subscription to the cloud Virtual Analyzer allows you to perform sample submission, synchronize suspicious object lists, and take action on user-defined suspicious objects.
Apex Central allows you to customize your threat intelligence capabilities by manually adding suspicious objects, uploading OpenIOC and STIX files from trusted sources, or automating investigations with the new Apex Central APIs.
The Managed Detection and Response Service brings together the power of the Trend Micro Threat Investigation Center and industry-leading user protection solutions to further protect your network. Improve your threat detection, incident response, and continuous monitoring capabilities, even with limited resources on hand.
The new Syslog Settings screen allows you to configure Apex Central to automatically forward supported log types to a syslog server.
Apex Central 2019 R1 resolves the following product issues:
Issue: The Apex Central setup program is unable to detect the FQDN of the server during installation.
Solution: Apex Central 2019 R1 resolves the issue by updating the setup program.
Issue: If the previous version of Control Manager is installed on a server where the Windows regional settings use a comma (,) as the decimal separator (such as French or Spanish operating systems), Apex Central migration is unable to complete successfully.
Solution: Apex Central 2019 R1 resolves the issue so that users can migrate to Apex Central without having to change their regional settings.
Issue: Apex Central installation or migration is unable to complete successfully If the SQL database password contains the following special characters: & < > ^ | ;
Solution: Apex Central 2019 R1 resolves the issue by supporting SQL database passwords that contain the following special characters: & < > ^ | ;
Issue: Re-installing Apex Central after an unsuccessful initial installation attempt may overwrite some important configuration files.
Solution: Apex Central 2019 R1 resolves the issue by maintaining the previous configuration files.
The Apex Central documentation set includes:
View and download the documentation set at:
http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/apex-central.aspx
Apex Central can be installed on endpoints running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or above.
Visit the following website for a complete list of system requirements:
http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/apex-central.aspx
See the Apex Central 2019 Installation and Upgrade Guide for instructions on:
Migrating to Apex Central 2019 from a previous version of Control Manager
Note: Apex Central 2019 only supports upgrading or migrating from Control Manager 6.0 Service Pack 3 Patch 3, Control Manager 7.0, or Control Manager 7.0 Patch 1.
Visit the following website to download the Installation and Upgrade Guide:
http://docs.trendmicro.com/en-us/enterprise/apex-central.aspx
The following are the known issues in this release:
For Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and above, the "Fast Insert Context" feature may generate a large number of unused pages during the bulk insert operation and cause the database file size to grow significantly.
To resolve this issue:
Turn off the "Fast Insert Context" feature by executing "DBCC TRACEON (692,-1)" on the SQL server.
Endpoint Sensor processing of files on Mac endpoints is case insensitive. Preliminary investigation results include all entries for a file name with different capitalization.
For Apex Central 2019 fresh installations or migrations from Control Manager 6.0 Service Pack 3 Patch 3, the User/Endpoint Directory screen might not display properly in Internet Explorer.
Note: This issue does not affect migrations from Control Manager 7.0 or Control Manager 7.0 Patch 1.
To resolve this issue:
Use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers instead of Internet Explorer to log on to the Apex Central console.
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