Cybersecurity gets a revolutionary makeover with Trend Micro's new Digital Twin Technology innovation.
In a recent announcement, Trend Micro Incorporated revealed a groundbreaking cyber resilience model leveraging Digital Twin capabilities. This innovative solution empowers enterprises to proactively manage risk and improve security outcomes by creating high-fidelity, continuously updated virtual simulations of their entire IT and operational technology environments.
The model, powered by NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform and AI Enterprise software, offers a metaverse-like "live fire drill" for cybersecurity. It allows organizations to simulate real-world cyber threats, validate defenses, and adapt security policies in real time, all without risking production systems.
Key elements of this model include:
- Continuous intelligent simulation: Unlike traditional reactive and periodic risk assessments, Trend Micro’s model offers ongoing, dynamic threat simulation and defense testing, enabling organizations to stay ahead of adaptive AI-powered attackers.
- Agentic AI-driven scenarios: AI agents model attacker behavior and devise attack vectors within the digital twin environment, allowing security teams to experiment with new tools, rehearse responses, and make data-driven decisions before actual attacks occur.
- Comprehensive environment modeling: It duplicates not only IT infrastructure but also operational technology (OT), cloud, and emerging technologies like Generative AI environments, offering a realistic, holistic testbed.
- Support for diverse use cases: Enterprises can run adversary simulations, business continuity tests, investment decision modeling, and security policy validation in the digital twin to predict how disruptions or security changes might ripple through interconnected systems.
- Safe, risk-free testing: By using a virtual clone of their infrastructure, organizations avoid the downtime or disruption that physical probing or live testing could cause, turning security practices from reactive to predictive and proactive management.
Frank Dickson, Group Vice President at IDC, stated that Trend's Digital Twin technology introduces a new operational model for enterprise cybersecurity. Rachel Jin, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer at Trend, added that the Digital Twin technology empowers customers to simulate threats and validate security controls without touching production systems.
The Digital Twin technology can be used for scenario planning, security investments, and business resilience optimization. However, it's important to note that this announcement does not contain any new statements from Frank Dickson or Rachel Jin regarding the validation of defenses or real-time adaptation of policies using the Digital Twin technology.
Additionally, Trend Micro has not disclosed any new developments regarding its Digital Twin technology or AI models in this announcement. The paragraph about the open sourcing of Trend Cybertron AI model and agent framework is also not included in this announcement.
The announcement content is solely the responsibility of its issuer. For more information about Trend Micro's Digital Twin cyber resilience model, please refer to Trend Micro's official communication channels.
- The cybersecurity model unveiled by Trend Micro, which leverages Digital Twin technology, includes comprehensive environment modeling that duplicates not only IT infrastructure but also operational technology (OT), cloud, and emerging technologies like Generative AI environments, creating a realistic, holistic testbed for data-and-cloud-computing environments.
- Trend Micro's Digital Twin cyber resilience model, powered by technology, offers a metaverse-like "live fire drill" for cybersecurity, allowing organizations to simulate real-world cyber threats, validate defenses, and adapt security policies in real time, all while avoiding risk to production systems.
