Posted by Hong Kong: Trend Micro is driving its AI platform strategy with new tie-ups and industry cooperation, focusing on securing enterprise AI use. The company announced its partnership with GMI Cloud and has joined the Coalition for Secure AI (COSAI) alongside partners including Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, IBM and others to support the responsible use of AI.
Partnership with GMI Cloud
GMI Cloud is a venture-backed AI-native GPU cloud provider specialising in the development of a vertically integrated platform optimised for AI and ML workloads. With the GMI Cloud partnership, Trend Micro aims to enhance security measures for AI implementations and protect sensitive data in high-performance computing environments.
GMI Cloud has standardised on the Trend Vision One platform to protect its customers using AI. The integration of Trend Vision One – Companion, an AI assistant leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices and accelerated computing, into GMI Cloud’s Cluster Engine interface provides proactive threat detection and response, even in air-gapped environments.
AI Platform Strategy
Most AI integrations in the cybersecurity industry today arrive in the form of chatbots, alert summarizers, or other basic functions, according to Kevin Simzer, Trend Micro’s COO.
“Far fewer resources have been invested in securing actual AI implementations or leveraging the technology to help stretched security teams as they deal with escalating complexity and risk. Our AI strategy brings this need to the forefront, underpinning Trend’s platform evolution as well as working with partners and industry to better manage enterprise risk around AI use,” said Simzer.
“Recent incidents involving CrowdStrike have underscored the vulnerabilities in cybersecurity and data security within cloud-based systems. In response, we’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Trend Micro to develop a GPU-powered private cloud,” said Alex Yeh, GMI Cloud’s Founder and CEO.
“This collaboration aims to prioritise security and enhance enterprise and government sovereign cloud solutions. Our on-demand and reserved GPU instances and storage, utilising NVIDIA Certified data centres, combined with Trend Micro’s security solutions, enable even the most tightly controlled organisations to use AI without compromising data sovereignty,” added Yeh.
COSAI
On responsible use of AI, Trend Micro said that it is also working with the broader industry and has been advocating for policies on responsible use and regulation of AI. COSAI members focus on collaborating and sharing best practices for secure AI deployment, AI security research and product development.
After joining the coalition this week, Trend’s first initiative as a COSAI member is to prepare cyber defenders for a changing cybersecurity landscape. The company will lead the development of a framework to help defenders identify needed investments to counter the offensive cybersecurity capabilities of current and future AI models. And to deploy appropriate mitigation techniques and maintain best practices.
The framework will also focus on how organisations can scale cybersecurity investments and expand effective mitigation strategies to address the evolution of AI models supporting threat actors’ use of offensive capabilities.