Michael Claaßen has been a Solution Architect at Trend Micro since 2018. In this position, he is responsible for the long-term technical support of major customers. His work focuses on securing data centers and protecting against complex, targeted threats, as well as merging information and analysis results for further processing.

Michael Claaßen joined Trend Micro in 2013. He has accumulated extensive technology and market experience from advising end customers and retail partners on endpoint and virtualization security. As a Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), he has presented typical attack scenarios in numerous live hacking demonstrations. Michael Claaßen is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional , Trend Micro Certified Security Master, and Trend Micro Certified Cyber Security Professional.

Prior to 2013, Michael Claaßen worked in technical support and IT security at headtechnology, a value-added distributor. His area of responsibility included the development of an analytical framework for the security evaluation of mid-size companies.