Trend Micro chooses Barcelona to open its European cybersecurity hub
The company employs 7,500 workers worldwide and has an annual turnover of nearly $3 billion.
BarcelonaTrend Micro, a Japanese multinational dedicated to cybersecurity, has chosen Barcelona to open its new hub Strategically located to cover operations in Southern Europe. These offices are 200 square meters in the Mapfre Tower for executives, but they are also looking for a more open space in the 22@ district to house all other employees. As Antonio Abellán, CEO of Trend Micro Iberia, explained this Thursday, "this space will serve as a launching point for Trend Micro to continue leading the sector from Barcelona." hub will host key engineering, operations, support, and business development functions. It will also act as a connection point with academic institutions and other players in the cybersecurity ecosystem.
"Trend Micro has thirty-three years of experience and upholds Japanese values: resilience and a vision for the future," says Abellán. "We chose Barcelona because it's a city that has historically been a meeting point between East and West; a city where companies like Yamaha and Honda have come to create synergies," he explained. "Added to this integration of cultures is the climate, the quality of life, and a very powerful technological ecosystem, with relevant events like the Mobile World Congress, and it's the perfect place to lay the first stone on which to build," explained the executive.
The company has 7,500 professionals worldwide, more than 2,500 clients, and a turnover of nearly $3 billion annually. In the hub from Barcelona, "the expectation is to have 300 employees by 2027, when the first phase of implementation of the hub in Barcelona," Abellán noted. However, the company has not made public the investment data for this new hubCurrently, the CEO explained, the great challenge in cybersecurity is artificial intelligence (AI), an area in which Trend Micro seeks to lead the sector: "We use AI to combat AI-generated cybercrime, and few companies do that," Abellán explained.
A growing sector
Barcelona City Council's Commissioner for Economic Development, Nadia Quevedo, welcomed Trend Micro's "renewed trust in the city" and noted that cybersecurity is a rapidly growing sector in the Catalan capital. hubs international technology, representing an impact of 2.8 billion euros, and of this, 36% is dedicated to cybersecurity," Quevedo recalled.
Likewise, according to data from the Cybersecurity Agency, there are more than 550 cybersecurity companies in Catalonia employing 10,600 professionals, demonstrating a sector of "increasing importance." According to a study conducted by the agency, the sector now has an annual turnover of €1.473 billion, 18.4% more than the previous year, and global cybersecurity revenue is expected to grow by 8% annually over the next five years, reaching $272 billion.