Trend Micro's AI agent, Trend Cybertron, is being released as an open-source model. The AI model and agent framework1 is intended to accelerate the development of autonomous cybersecurity agents.
As one of the first specialized cybersecurity Large Language Models (LLM), it provides free access to advanced cybersecurity for companies and researchers worldwide. Optimized with Llama 2, Trend Cybertron supports fast, reliable deployment with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices on an NVIDIA infrastructure.
Predict and respond to cyber threats
Companies around the world strive to innovate and grow while facing security challenges, fragmented point solutions, and an overwhelming flood of threat alerts. A proactive approach helps: With NVIDIA AI at its core, Trend Cybertron goes beyond threat hunting to deploy intelligent, decision-making AI agents that can predict cyber threats and act before they even occur.
"The secret of Trend Cybertron is the data it continuously learns from and fine-tunes for optimized threat detection and defense," explains Richard Werner, Security Advisor at Trend Micro. "By leveraging reliable threat intelligence and NVIDIA's AI expertise, we've made proactive security a reality, predicting and preventing threats like never before. This innovation isn't just a win for our customers—it's making the entire digital, connected world more secure."
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To realize its vision, Trend developed its agent-based artificial intelligence strategy with NVIDIA AI software. The solution is designed to automate cybersecurity and help organizations proactively manage threats. The strategy includes regular resource scans, risk assessment and prioritization, and the formulation of concrete, realistic countermeasures before a cyberattack even occurs.
Organizations can apply various blueprints and seamlessly integrate AI agents to automate security tasks based on resource scans, proactively mitigate threats, and scale their defenses. This enables them to effectively manage threats autonomously within the NVIDIA ecosystem. The solution offers the following benefits:
- Improve security posture: Security teams can reliably predict risks across the entire attack surface.
- Reduce alarm fatigue: More accurate prioritization protects security teams from being overwhelmed by unfiltered alarms.
- Time savings for developers: Providing practical insights counteracts the shortage of skilled workers and helps developers identify and resolve risks.
- Greater value creation: By providing data from existing risk sensors along with information on the specific context, the solution creates even clearer insights.
For proactive risk management
Designed for proactive risk management, Trend Cybertron leverages threat intelligence from over 250 million sensors worldwide. It interprets user queries, generates actionable plans, and performs a holistic risk assessment by accessing data from the Trend Micro cloud in real time. This enables Trend Cybertron to provide tailored recommendations and best practices for securing enterprise AI systems.
"With the ability to understand, think, and act, AI agents provide organizations with a powerful new cybersecurity tool," said Pat Lee, vice president of strategic enterprise partnerships at NVIDIA. "Agentic AI security agents, built with the Trend Cybertron model and framework with NVIDIA AI, can analyze massive amounts of data in real time to detect potential threats, dynamically adapt, and respond autonomously."
AI agent in collaboration with NVIDIA
NVIDIA provided AI microservices to support the development and deployment of the model. To reduce the time required to fine-tune the model, Trend Cybertron trained and optimized it using NVIDIA DGX supercomputing to calculate predictions.
Trend Cybertron currently consists of an AI model with eight billion parameters and an initial specialized AI agent, with additional models and agents being developed to expand its cybersecurity capabilities. A larger and more advanced version of the model with 70 billion parameters is also planned to address future cybersecurity challenges.
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