Trend Micro to Open-source Model and AI Agent to Drive the Future of Agentic Cybersecurity
Trend
Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader,
announced the open-sourcing of Trend Cybertron1, an AI model and agent framework designed to accelerate the
development of autonomous cybersecurity agents. As one of the first specialized
cybersecurity LLMs, it provides organizations and researchers worldwide access
to advanced cybersecurity capabilities at no cost2. The specialized Trend Cybertron model is fine-tuned using Llama
3.1 and supports rapid, reliable deployment with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices on NVIDIA accelerated
infrastructure.
Kevin Simzer, COO at Trend Micro: "The secret sauce of Trend Cybertron is the
data it continuously learns from, fine-tuned for optimized threat detection and
mitigation. By bringing to bear the very highest quality threat data and
NVIDIA's industry-leading AI expertise, we've made proactive security a reality, enabling us to
predict and prevent threats like never before. This innovation isn't just a win
for our customers—it's about making the entire digital, connected world a safer
place."
Global organizations are struggling to
innovate and grow while being weighed down by security challenges, fragmented
point solutions, and an overwhelming flood of threat alerts. The complexity
demands a shift to a proactive approach. Powered by NVIDIA AI at the core,
Trend Cybertron moves beyond chasing threats, applying intelligent,
decision-making AI agents to predict and respond.
Pat Lee, Vice President of Strategic Enterprise Partnerships at NVIDIA:
"With the ability to understand, reason and take action, AI agents give
organizations a powerful new cybersecurity tool. Agentic AI security agents
built with the Trend Cybertron model and framework using NVIDIA AI can analyze
massive amounts of data in real time to detect potential threats, adapt
dynamically, and respond autonomously. "
To operationalize this vision, Trend has built its agentic AI strategy with
NVIDIA AI software to accelerate cybersecurity automation, helping
organizations proactively manage risks with resource scanning, risk assessment,
priority-based reasoning, and actionable remediation suggestions.
Organizations can apply multiple blueprints and seamlessly integrate AI agents
to automate security tasks with resource scanning, proactively mitigate
threats, and scale their defenses to manage threats more effectively, all
within the NVIDIA ecosystem. Specifically, this will help:
- Enhance security posture: enabling teams to precisely anticipate risk across the entire
attack surface.
- Reduce alert overload: alleviate fatigue for SecOps teams through more accurate
prioritization.
- Save developers' time: overcome security skills shortages by providing actionable
insights to help them identify and remediate risks.
- Unleash greater value: deliver more powerful insights from existing risk sensors.
Trend Cybertron is designed to proactively manage risk, leveraging threat
intelligence from over 250 million sensors worldwide—the broadest in the
industry. It interprets user queries, generates actionable plans, and performs
a holistic risk assessment by retrieving real-time cybersecurity intelligence
from Trend Micro's cloud, ultimately providing with tailored recommendations
and best practices to secure an enterprise's AI systems.
NVIDIA provided support and AI microservices for developing and deploying the
model. Trend Micro trained and optimized the Trend Cybertron model for
inference using NVIDIA DGX supercomputing to reduce the time required to
fine-tune the model.
Trend Cybertron currently consists of an 8-billion-parameter AI model and an
initial specialized AI agent, with additional models and agents in development
to expand its cybersecurity capabilities. A larger and more advanced version
with 70-billion-parameter of the model is planned for the near future to
address the cybersecurity challenges of tomorrow.
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