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Enabling Secure AI Inference: Trend Cybertron Leverages NVIDIA Universal LLM NIM Microservices
Learn how Trend's Cybertron has been harnessing the power of NVIDIA Universal LLM NIM Microservices.
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At NVIDIA GTC Paris 2025, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA NIM expanded support for rapid, reliable deployment of a broad range of large language models (LLMs) using a new universal LLM NIM microservice. Designed to decouple deployment from backend optimisation, this new microservice offers flexibility, speed, and scalability previously out of reach for many enterprises.
For Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader that is integrated into the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory Validated Design ecosystem, this innovation is a strategic catalyst. It allows us to bring our Trend Cybertron proactive cybersecurity LLM — a domain-specific language model trained on years of risk intelligence, telemetry, and adversarial tactics — into production environments with unprecedented performance and ease. It represents a significant milestone in our ongoing effort to deliver secure, scalable AI-driven cybersecurity solutions built on state-of-the-art infrastructure.
This blog explores the universal LLM NIM microservice container, why it matters for secure AI development, and how Trend Micro is leveraging it to redefine cybersecurity in the age of sovereign AI.
Trend Cybertron Meets the Universal LLM NIM Microservice
At Trend, we’ve invested heavily in developing proprietary Trend Cybertron LLMs tailored for cybersecurity — models that understand the language of security — ranging from MITRE ATT&CK techniques and SIEM logs to natural-language risk reports and red-team narratives. The universal LLM NIM microservice enables us to run these custom models directly on NVIDIA Enterprise AI factories, whether in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments.
Here’s why this matters:
- Rapid Time-to-Value: We can deploy custom LLMs built for real-time risk detection using the universal NIM container without waiting for custom engine-level optimisations.
- Flexible Backend Support: Whether we choose NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM for high-performance inference or vLLM for efficient throughput and batching, universal NIM abstracts away the backend complexity.
- Sovereign AI Readiness: Trend serves enterprises and governments with strict data sovereignty and security requirements. With on-premise deployment built with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, we can offer scalable, private, and trustworthy LLM inference aligned with national AI mandates.
- Security at the Core: As a security vendor, we benefit from the ability to self-host our models, maintaining control over training data, intellectual property, and customer telemetry — all of which are essential for trustworthy AI.
Building Secure Sovereign AI Factories
Trend Cybertron’s integration with the universal LLM NIM microservice helps nations and enterprises build scalable, sovereign AI factories and agents.These innovations are critical enablers for locally controlled, self-improving, and secure AI systems. Trend’s security domain expertise helps ensure that AI agents and models are not just powerful, but safe, auditable, and resilient.
By leveraging NVIDIA NIM microservices, Trend is able to build robust AI-driven cybersecurity capabilities with the Cybertron LLM:
- Model Drift Monitoring: With fast deployment cycles enabled by the universal NIM microservice, we can monitor inference behaviours in production and retrain models using NVIDIA NeMo Data Flywheel, ensuring consistent accuracy over time.
- Zero Trust Inference: With NIM deployed on-premise, Cybertron can operate within zero-trust architectures where model inference is tightly controlled and auditable.
- RAG + Security LLMs: By integrating NIM with the AI-Q Blueprint, Trend can create AI agents that reason over security knowledge bases, telemetry logs, and threat intelligence in real-time.
- Rapid Experimentation: With backend-agnostic deployment, our security researchers can test new Cybertron variants instantly on NVIDIA infrastructure, improving time-to-response during live risks.
By combining NVIDIA’s high-performance AI stack with Trend’s domain expertise in cybersecurity, we are jointly enabling:
- Rapid deployment of secure, private LLMs
- End-to-end observability for AI agents handling sensitive data
- Adaptive, threat-aware AI systems capable of evolving with adversaries
With Trend Cybertron now deployable through universal NIM microservices, we’re making cybersecurity faster, smarter, safer, and more proactive—bringing AI to the frontline of digital defence.
Final Thoughts
The universal LLM NIM microservice is not just a technical advancement—it’s an inflexion point for enterprise AI adoption. For Trend Micro, it unlocks the full potential of our Trend Cybertron proactive cybersecurity LLM, allowing us to deploy, iterate, and scale AI security solutions with flexibility and speed.
In an era where agility is key and risks evolve daily, being able to securely deploy domain-specific LLMs on day one is a game-changer. Whether defending cloud infrastructure, endpoints, or enterprise networks, Trend is working with NVIDIA to build a future where AI and cybersecurity grow stronger together.