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Trend Micro (TYO: 4704) has announced the open-sourcing of Trend Cybertron, an AI model and agent framework for autonomous cybersecurity. The system is fine-tuned using Llama 3.1 and leverages NVIDIA AI infrastructure for deployment.

The 8-billion-parameter AI model utilizes threat intelligence from over 250 million sensors worldwide. It offers features including resource scanning, risk assessment, priority-based reasoning, and actionable remediation suggestions. The framework aims to help organizations enhance security posture, reduce alert overload, save developers' time, and deliver improved insights from existing risk sensors.

Trend Micro trained the model using NVIDIA DGX supercomputing, with plans to develop a 70 billion parameter version in the future. While the framework is open-source, usage of NVIDIA infrastructure may involve costs.

Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the #1 worldwide cybersecurity channel partner, announces enhanced capabilities of its Trend Vision One™ platform for MSPs and MSSPs. The platform focuses on Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM), enabling partners to deliver proactive security services in response to AI-driven threats.

The platform offers key features including:

• Continuous asset risk assessment and monitoring
• Attack surface discovery
• Cyber risk reduction planning
• Real-time risk reporting
• Optimized governance and compliance reporting

Legato Security, a fast-growing managed solution provider, has implemented CREM services through Trend Vision One™, enabling proactive threat detection and mitigation without requiring extensive in-house expertise. The platform leverages AI-driven analytics and multi-tenant management to help partners predict and prevent threats while managing expanding attack surfaces.

Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) has been named the #1 Champion in the Canalys Global Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix 2025, marking its third consecutive top ranking among 32 cybersecurity vendors. The company achieved a leadership score of 82% and momentum score of 74% in Canalys's evaluation.

The recognition highlights Trend's Global Partner Program, launched in 2024, which delivers tailored engagement across 69 countries and various partner types. The program features AI capabilities, partner competencies, training, and lead-generation tools. Canalys noted that Trend's 2025 focus will be on expanding its partner ecosystem, particularly in AI-focused partnerships with NVIDIA and sectors including defense, energy, healthcare, and FSI.

The company plans to enhance its security services specialist ecosystem and drive partner momentum through cloud marketplaces, implementing an AI-predicted opportunity campaign for up- and cross-sell opportunities.

Trend Micro (TYO: 4704) released joint research with CTOne highlighting security concerns in private 5G networks despite AI adoption. The study reveals 86% of organizations currently use private 5G networks, while 14% are evaluating deployment.

Key findings show that 62% of organizations currently use AI-powered security tools for private 5G networks, with 35% planning implementation. Top AI capabilities deemed essential include predictive threat intelligence (58%), continuous authentication (52%), and zero trust enforcement (47%).

However, significant challenges persist: 47% cite high costs, 44% worry about false positives/negatives, and 37% lack internal expertise. Only 20% of organizations have dedicated communications technology security teams, with just 18% of security budgets allocated to private 5G networks. Furthermore, only 54% ensure GDPR compliance, and 51% encrypt data at rest and in transit.

Trend Micro has launched Trend Cybertron, the industry's first specialized cybersecurity large language model (LLM) designed to drive proactive security outcomes. This breakthrough AI Agent combines Agentic AI reasoning capabilities with 35 years of data, threat intelligence, and human expertise to predict and prevent threats across an organization's entire attack surface.

Seamlessly integrated into the Trend Vision One™ platform, Trend Cybertron leverages intelligence from over 250 million sensors protecting assets at 500,000+ enterprises in 175+ countries. The system blocked over 147 billion threats in 2024 alone.

Key benefits include:

• Accelerating security outcomes by anticipating needs and predicting risk
• Reducing alert overload with precise prioritization
• Enabling proactive threat prevention before breaches occur
• Reducing data breach risk by 17% on average

The AI model also addresses security for AI systems, provides actionable insights with attack path predictions, simplifies security workflows, and empowers leadership to transform security from a cost center to a business enabler.

Trend Micro (TMICY) reported strong financial results for Q4 and FY2024, with global net sales growing 10% YoY. The company's enterprise segment showed robust performance with a 10% YoY increase in net sales and 7% YoY growth in enterprise ARR, exceeding US $1.3 billion.

Q4 consolidated net sales reached 69,979 million Yen (US $458 million), with operating income of 8,868 million Yen (US $58 million). The company's operating margin improved to 18% in 2024, with 47% YoY operating income growth. Next-gen AI SOC ARR grew 21% YoY to over US $273M, while pre-GAAP commercial revenue increased 24% globally at constant currency in Q4.

For FY2025, Trend Micro projects consolidated net sales of 288,600 million Yen (US $1,874 million), with expected operating income of 60,300 million Yen (US $391 million).

Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) has released new research highlighting consumer misconceptions about online scams. The study revealed that over one-third of consumers believe scam victimization only occurs through oversharing online, while 45% think scams are easily identifiable through grammar errors.

According to the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), consumers lost over $1 trillion to scams last year. The research, conducted among 6,000 consumers across five countries, shows only 15% of respondents discuss scam prevention with family or friends.

To combat this growing threat, Trend Micro is implementing a three-pronged approach: launching an updated version of Trend Micro ScamCheck to identify potential scams and deepfakes, continuing educational initiatives that have reached over 5 million people since 2008, and partnering with GASA for worldwide summits in 2025.

Trend Micro has been recognized as a Customer's Choice in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs). The company achieved a remarkable 4.7-star rating from customer reviews, with 72% being five-star reviews and 27% four-star, based on 81 reviews as of December 2024.

The company's Trend Vision One™ – Cloud Security platform received a 96% 'willingness to recommend' rating. Notable features include cloud misconfiguration checks, runtime monitoring, automated vulnerability detection, and infrastructure as code scanning. The platform also offers advanced capabilities such as cloud detection and response (CDR), data security posture management (DSPM), and cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM).

This recognition highlights Trend Micro's success in addressing the challenges of unified risk visibility and comprehensive protection for multi-cloud environments, particularly important as businesses increasingly adopt cloud-native applications.

Trend Micro (TYO: 4704) has announced a new collaboration with Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) to enhance enterprise cybersecurity protection against stealthy threats. The partnership, announced at CES 2025, combines Trend's AI-powered Vision One platform with Intel's Threat Detection Technology (TDT).

The integrated solution improves ransomware detection by 24% over software-only approaches by leveraging hardware-accelerated detection. Intel's TDT, deployed across a billion PCs, offloads advanced memory scanning workloads from CPU to GPU, enabling 7-10X improved scanning capacity without impacting performance.

This collaboration addresses the growing threat of fileless malware, which was present in 40% of attacks in 2023. The solution enables instant detection of zero-day attacks and new variants through CPU telemetry and Intel AI, while maintaining optimal user experience.