Case Study: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum achieves virtual infrastructure protection and GDPR compliance with Trend Micro

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Protects its Virtual Infrastructure with Trend Micro

The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, home to a world‑class collection and around 150 employees, needed to secure a modernized IT environment that increasingly relied on desktop and server virtualization while meeting GDPR and operational efficiency requirements. Moving from a physical to a virtual infrastructure raised new security challenges—centralizing protection, avoiding product bloat, and preventing lateral movements across virtual servers—especially after changes to VMware NSX licensing forced adjustments to their architecture.

The museum implemented Trend Micro solutions—Deep Security for virtual infrastructure (with agentless protection where possible and agents where needed), Apex One for endpoints, and Virtual Patching via IDS/IPS—to protect servers, desktops, and remote connections. The deployment simplified management, reduced maintenance overhead, closed vulnerabilities before exploitation, and helped the museum avoid major security incidents while maintaining regulatory compliance and preserving its reputation.

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum

Javier Espadas

Chief Technology Officer