In a major technological leap for proactive cybersecurity, global leader Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704) has unveiled a new cyber resilience model powered by its Digital Twin technology.
Trend Micro’s Digital Twin capabilities empower enterprises to simulate real-world cyber threats, validate their defenses, and adapt policies in real time across complex and diverse digital environments.
This innovation, which uses advanced agentic AI, is a significant departure from traditional, reactive security measures. It allows enterprises to create a high-fidelity, continuously updated simulation — a “digital twin” — of their entire infrastructure to test defenses against real-world threats without touching live systems.
Bartley Richardson, Senior Engineering Director for Agentic AI at NVIDIA, states, “In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, organizations need proactive solutions that can anticipate and counter potential threats before they occur. Powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, Trend’s cybersecurity digital twins bring AI-driven protection to enterprise infrastructure.”
Powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity digital twins enable organizations to proactively manage risk across their entire digital landscape — from on-premise to cloud, and even to next-generation AI-powered systems.
Harnessing AI for proactive, data-driven protection
This shift from periodic assessments to a continuous, intelligent simulation allows for data-driven decisions that strengthen resilience and minimize business disruptions. It also marks a major evolution in proactive cybersecurity, allowing organizations to stay ahead of adversaries, harden their environments to circumvent threats, and confidently secure mission-critical operations against an ever-changing threat landscape.
As Stuart Samples, Chief Technology Officer at Northeast Georgia Health System, puts it, “Trend’s digital twin approach completely changes our ability to understand risk in real-time. It helps us catch threats we didn’t even know to look for, allowing our team to focus less on firefighting and more on confidently driving innovation.”
Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security & Trust at IDC, adds: “As threats migrate to OT, proactive security is critical. Trend Micro’s Digital Twin technology introduces a new operational model for enterprise cyber security: simulation. Sometimes even probing a production network can result in downtime, often making it extremely difficult to expose vulnerabilities and confirm compensating measures. A continuous cycle of adversary simulation and defensive validation becomes a value tool to ensure that organizations stay ahead of cyber threats, while being sensitive to the fragility of some operational environments.”
This announcement is the latest in a series of innovation-led projects from Trend Micro designed to help network defenders harness AI, close skill gaps, and improve security outcomes. The company recently shared that it would open source its Trend Cybertron AI model to accelerate the development of autonomous cybersecurity agents and has also expanded its work to cover protection for GenAI workloads and advances to sovereign AI infrastructure.
Rachel Jin, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer at Trend, summarizes the challenge: “Enterprises are struggling to defend complex, dynamic infrastructure environments from highly adaptive, AI-powered adversaries. Rapid shifts in threat actor tactics and IT infrastructure mean reactive, point-in-time risk assessments are no longer fit for purpose. Our Digital Twin technology empowers customers to simulate threats and safely validate security controls without touching production systems — to finally close the gap between digital transformation and defensive readiness.”
Trend Micro: Empowering fintech security with digital twins
For fintech firms in the Philippines, where the digital economy is rapidly expanding, securing financial data and infrastructure is a top priority.
Trend Micro’s Digital Twin technology offers a distinct advantage by helping these firms stay ahead of sophisticated cyber threats.
- Risk visualization and scenario planning: Fintech companies can use the digital twin to simulate attacks on their payment gateways, customer databases, or banking platforms. This allows them to visualize potential weak points and test their security protocols in a safe, virtual environment before an actual breach occurs.
- Optimizing security investments: Before investing in new security tools or making major architectural changes, a fintech firm can introduce those changes into the digital twin to see how they perform. This ensures that every security investment is data-driven and effectively improves their defense posture.
- Business resilience optimization: The technology can simulate failure scenarios, such as a major data center outage or a ransomware attack, to understand how disruptions would ripple across their IT systems and operations. This helps fintech firms create more robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans without risking any downtime or loss of sensitive customer data.
By providing a predictive and dynamic security framework, Trend Micro‘s latest technology offering can empower Philippine fintech firms to build trust with their customers and confidently drive innovation in the face of an ever-evolving threat landscape.
To learn more about how Trend’s Digital Twin technology is reshaping proactive security,
visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/business/ai/digital-twin.html
