Trend Micro has launched an AI agent designed to change the way enterprises approach cyber risk.
Trend Cybertron is believed to be the industry’s first specialised cybersecurity large language model (LLM) designed to drive proactive security outcomes.
Using precise local risk assessments and global threat intelligence, the new AI engine predicts and prevents threats across an organisation’s entire attack surface in any environment.
Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro, says: “Trend is building a cybersecurity AI agent unlike any other. 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.”
More than a standalone LLM, the new approach to AI for security will leverage all of the core technologies in Trend Vision One – threat data, analytics, engines, and beyond – to provide a truly complete solution for organisations’ entire cybersecurity workload.
Organisations worldwide are grappling with increasingly complex security challenges. Understanding attack surfaces, managing siloed tech stacks, responding to threats, handling alert fatigue, and integrating AI are all leading to overwhelmed and fatigued security teams.
Trend Cybertron connects real-time and historical data from around the globe to:
- Accelerate security outcomes by anticipating needs and predicting risk
- Reduce alert overload, increasing precision in prioritisation and preventing fatigue
- Unleash greater value and more powerful insights from existing risk sensors
Integrated into the flagship Trend Vision One platform, Trend Cybertron is now available to customers worldwide. An industry-leading focus on proactive security enables IT teams to anticipate and predict risk and threat activity with precision across the entire attack surface. This makes it possible for teams to get ahead of breaches and mitigate risk before it has the chance to materialise.
Frank Dickson, group vice-president: security and trust at IDC: “Let’s face it. Cybersecurity has been detection centric for some time. 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 organisations 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.”
Trend Cybertron will be trained on an unmatched foundation of intelligence and AI expertise, including:
- Trend’s threat intelligence from over 250-million sensors that protect over 82-million assets at more than 500 000 enterprises in over 175 countries, blocking over 160-billion threats in 2023.
- Machine learning that enables data classification, vulnerability discovery, and detection of deepfakes, phishing techniques, malware, lateral movement, user anomalies, and scams.
- Decades of institutional knowledge from over 3,000 security experts, with over 700 patents in cybersecurity technology.
- 20+ years of advanced vulnerability and zero-day research from the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative that enables protection of customers an average of 70 days ahead of the industry.
Zaheer Ebrahim, solutions architect at Trend Micro Middle East and Africa, comments: “Trend Cybertron represents a paradigm shift in cybersecurity – combining advanced AI with decades of human intelligence to deliver truly proactive security. By leveraging real-time and historical global intelligence along with comprehensive visibility across every attack surface, we empower enterprises to predict and prevent threats, reduce risk, and create a more resilient future.”