No Decepticons here -- Trend Micro's Trend Cybertron will be available for organizations that want to 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.
Trend Micro Incorporated today announced it is open-sourcing its Trend Cybertron, an AI model and agent framework designed to accelerate the development of autonomous cybersecurity agents.
Trend Cybertron is one of the first specialized cybersecurity LLMs; it provides organizations and researchers worldwide access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities at no cost.
The specialized Trend Cybertron model is fine-tuned using Llama 3.1 and supports deployment with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices on NVIDIA accelerated infrastructure, Trend Micro said.
Now, here's today's MSSP update. Drop me a line at sharon.florentine@cyberriskalliance.com if you have news to share or want to say hi!
Today's MSSP Update
1. CrowdStrike Falcon achieves FedRAMP High: CrowdStrike today announced that the CrowdStrike Falcon platform has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization status. This designation makes the Falcon platform available to MSSPs serving U.S. federal agencies, public sector organizations, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) and critical infrastructure entities.
2. Coro's new GM of Americas: Cybersecurity firm Coro today announced the appointment of Joe Sykora as its first GM of the Americas. The creation of this new role and Sykora's move to the role underscores the company's growth and commitment to the channel, Coro said. Sykora most recently served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Partner Sales at Proofpoint. Before that, he served as Vice President of Global Sales and Channels at Bitdefender, supporting more than 10,000 Cloud and MSP partners. Prior to Bitdefender, he spent over seven years at Fortinet as Vice President of Americas Channels, Sales Operations and Advanced Technologies. Congratulations!
3. Vanta's new features: Trust management platform Vanta today released new features and capabilities to help security and GRC teams collaborate. These releases include team-based collaboration and granular user access, an integrated Vanta Exchange for vendor security reviews, enhanced audit capabilities and expanded security questionnaire automation.
4. XeneX SOC OnePortal: XeneX this week announced the release of its SOC OnePortal, a self-service component of the XeneX Managed SOCaaS platform. The new portal enables MSPs and MSSPs to see the entire lifecycle of their clients and then continue visibility through real-time monitoring. The new features provide transparency, streamlined workflows, and enhanced security controls.
5. Exabeam expands to the UK: Security automation and intelligence firm Exabeam announced today it has expanded to the UK, marking the 10th region where its cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution meets in-country data residency requirements. Built on Google Cloud, this expansion extends the New-Scale Platform cloud availability across the UK, Germany, and Switzerland.
