Trend Cybertron has been developed in partnership with NVIDIA, leveraging its AI microservices to enhance cybersecurity automation
Global cybersecurity firm Trend Micro has announced the open-sourcing of Trend Cybertron, an AI model and agent framework designed to advance the development of autonomous cybersecurity agents. Built on Llama 3.1, the model enables organisations and researchers to access sophisticated cybersecurity capabilities at no cost.
Trend Cybertron is optimised for rapid and reliable deployment using NVIDIA NIM inference microservices on NVIDIA-accelerated infrastructure, offering a scalable AI-driven approach to threat detection and response.
AI-Driven Security For Growing Threat Landscape
With cybersecurity threats becoming more complex, organisations often struggle with fragmented security solutions and an overwhelming number of threat alerts. Trend Cybertron aims to move beyond traditional threat detection by deploying intelligent AI agents that predict and respond to cyber threats autonomously.
Sharda Tickoo, Country Manager for India & SAARC at Trend Micro, highlighted the significance of AI in cybersecurity:
“The secret sauce of Trend Cybertron is the data it continuously learns from, fine-tuned for optimised 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.”
NVIDIA Collaboration Strengthens AI Security Capabilities
Trend Cybertron has been developed in partnership with NVIDIA, leveraging its AI microservices to enhance cybersecurity automation. The AI agents within Trend Cybertron can analyse large volumes of data in real-time to detect and respond to threats dynamically.
Pat Lee, Vice President of Strategic Enterprise Partnerships at NVIDIA, underscored the impact of AI-powered security agents:
“With the ability to understand, reason and take action, AI agents give organisations a powerful new cybersecurity tool. Agentic AI security agents built with the Trend Cybertron model and framework using NVIDIA AI can analyse massive amounts of data in real-time to detect potential threats, adapt dynamically, and respond autonomously.”
Trend Micro’s agentic AI strategy, built using NVIDIA AI software, aims to improve cybersecurity automation. This includes resource scanning, risk assessment, priority-based reasoning, and remediation suggestions, enabling organisations to manage risks proactively.
How Trend Cybertron Strengthens Cyber Defences
Trend Cybertron provides multiple AI blueprints that organisations can integrate into their security operations. These AI-driven security solutions help:
Enhance security posture: Providing a comprehensive view of cyber risks across an organisation’s attack surface.
Reduce alert fatigue: Helping security operations teams prioritise threats more efficiently.
Support developers: Addressing cybersecurity skill shortages by offering actionable insights for risk mitigation.
Maximise existing security investments: Enabling better insights from current risk sensors and security systems.
The model draws on threat intelligence from over 250 million sensors worldwide, giving it one of the broadest real-time threat intelligence networks in the industry. It can interpret user queries, generate actionable security plans, and perform holistic risk assessments, ensuring tailored recommendations to help businesses secure their AI systems.
Future Expansion & Development
Trend Cybertron currently operates as an 8-billion-parameter AI model, with additional models and security agents in development. A larger, more advanced version with 70 billion parameters is planned to address future cybersecurity challenges.
Trend Micro used NVIDIA DGX supercomputing to train and optimise Cybertron, reducing the time required to fine-tune its AI capabilities. While the Cybertron model is open-source, organisations may still incur costs related to NVIDIA infrastructure usage, such as GPUs.
To learn more, Trend Micro will be showcasing Trend Cybertron at NVIDIA GTC: Trend Micro at NVIDIA GTC.