Cybersecurity company Trend Micro recently launched a new AI Agent meant to drive proactive security outcomes.
Trend Cybertron harnesses LLM technology to predict and prevent threats
Trend Cybertron is a specialized cybersecurity large language model (LLM) designed to predict and prevent threats across an organization’s entire attack surface in any environment.
“Trend is building a cybersecurity AI agent unlike any other,” said Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen. “We’re bringing together a massive quantity of the highest-quality data in the industry to supercharge our capabilities and make it easier than ever for customers to proactively manage their cyber risk. Our customers and partners are already seeing reduced costs and improved security posture.”
According to Trend Micro, the solution will combine Agentic AI reasoning capability with 35 years of data, threat intelligence, and human expertise. This security approach will leverage Trend Vision One’s core technologies, including threat data, analytics, and engines, to handle an organization’s entire cybersecurity workload.
Trend Cybertron is now available to customers worldwide through integration with the Trend Vision One platform.
“This evolution of AI in the Trend platform is unique as it calculates our constantly changing risk profile and cross references millions of bits of data for custom threat intelligence,” said Stuart MacLellan, CTO at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. “This has made it possible to be more proactive than reactive with our entire security strategy.”
Components of Trend Cybertron
Trend Cybertron connects real-time and historical data on a global scale to do the following:
- Accelerate security outcomes by anticipating needs and predicting risk.
- Reduce alert overload to increase precision in prioritization and prevent fatigue.
- Unleash greater value and powerful insights from existing risk sensors.
Trend Micro says that this new preventative solution will be trained on a foundation of intelligence and AI, including:
- Trend’s threat intelligence comes from over 250 million sensors that protect over 82 million assets at over 500,000 enterprises in over 175 countries, blocking over 160 billion threats in 2023.
- Machine learning that will enable data classification, vulnerability discovery, and detection of deepfakes, phishing techniques, malware, lateral movement, user anomalies, and scams.
- Institutional knowledge from over 3,000 security experts with over 700 patents in cybersecurity technology.
- Over 20 years of advanced vulnerability and zero-day research from the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative to enable protection of customers an average of 70 days ahead of the industry.
Additionally, Trend Cybertron seeks to redefine industry standards in several significant areas, including:
- AI for security: The solution breaks down longstanding security silos via a complete connection of all available information to build a comprehensive understanding of security, intelligence, and data. By being able to access data from all layers securely, security teams can make informed decisions. Further, data breach risk is reduced by 17 percent on average, saving organizations millions.
- Security for AI: The solution has made it easier for organizations at all levels to protect training data, prevent misalignment, and stop cyberattacks against AI models.
- Actionable insights: Trend Cybertron has complete telemetry across endpoints, clouds, networks, emails, identities, AI, and data, allowing the solution to make real-time predictions and address the impact and likelihood of thousands of potential attack paths for each customer. It also learns and adapts to a customer’s environment to uncover and address new vulnerabilities and attack vectors. Comprehensive visibility and automatic prioritization also equip organizations with fast and effective mitigation 24/7.
- Simplifying workflows: The new model will enhance Trend’s flagship platform to ensure organizations at any stage of their cybersecurity journey can seamlessly integrate Trend Cybertron with their existing security stack. This provides security teams with the benefit of reduced workloads and improved accessibility at all levels of expertise.
- Empowering leadership: Trend Vision One empowers security leaders to change their roles from reactive defenders to proactive business enablers. By transforming security from a cost center into a driver of innovation, Trend enables leaders to communicate cyber risk in the context of business risk, ensuring both operational protection and future growth.
“Let’s face it. Cybersecurity has been detection centric for some time,” said Frank Dickson, group vice president of security & trust at IDC. “Prevention was simply uncool. Trend is looking to change the market narrative; there is no need to detect an attack if it never happens. Leveraging AI in combination with its cyber risk exposure management, Trend enables organizations to see threats from an attacker’s point of view and thwart them before risk becomes reality, creating a massive ROI for overworked security teams. Trend promises to make proactive prevention cool again in 2025.”
This foundation will result in a resilient and rapidly evolving system that can independently perform risk management tasks and make decisions to anticipate, understand, and mitigate cyber risks worldwide every month. It will enable customers to make informed security decisions and manage cybersecurity posture, data privacy, and compliance.
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