Trend Micro announced it would enhance its on-site AV products with cloud-based intelligence it called the Smart Protection Network (SPN) Each instance of the vendors product acts as a sensor for security intelligence (i.e. malware detection, rogue URL detection) The vendor then implements a cloud repository, to publish, analyze, and distribute this information to all other customer nodes around the network. This type of security intelligence sharing is a very good thing because it increases the number of collectors in the intelligence network.”]