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Supporting the National Cyber Strategy: How TrendAI™ Helps
A deeper look at the first three pillars and outlining how our capabilities directly support government agencies working to bring this strategy to life.
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Government Agencies Deliver on Pillars 1 Through 3
In our previous blog, we applauded the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) for releasing the National Cyber Strategy — a bold framework that lays out six pillars to strengthen our nation's cybersecurity posture. Today, we're taking a deeper look at the first three pillars and outlining how our capabilities directly support government agencies working to bring this strategy to life.
Pillar 1: Shape Adversary Behavior
The strategy's first pillar calls on the U.S. government to deploy a full suite of defensive and offensive cyber operations, counter the global spread of surveillance-state technology, address cybercrime at scale, and create real consequences for adversaries. The message is clear: the U.S. must shift from a purely reactive posture to one that actively deters, disrupts, and imposes costs on threat actors.
The Challenge
Nation-state actors and cybercriminal organizations continue to grow in sophistication. Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups backed by foreign governments to conduct espionage, intellectual property theft, and pre-positioning campaigns targeting federal networks and critical infrastructure. At the same time, ransomware syndicates, and cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystems lower the barrier to entry for less-skilled attackers. Government agencies need actionable, real-time intelligence to stay ahead of these evolving threats — not just indicators of compromise after the damage is done.
How TrendAI™ Helps
Threat Intelligence at Scale.
We operate one of the world's largest threat intelligence networks, processing billions of threat queries daily across endpoints, email, cloud, and network telemetry. Our threat research teams — including our TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI), the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program — continuously discover and disclose vulnerabilities before adversaries can weaponize them. This proactive approach directly supports the strategy's goal of shaping adversary behavior by removing the tools they rely on.
Adversary Tracking and Attribution.
Our dedicated research teams track and profile nation-state and cybercriminal groups operating against U.S. interests. We regularly publish detailed analyses of APT campaigns, tooling, and infrastructure, providing agencies with the context they need to understand who is targeting them, how, and why. This intelligence feeds directly into defensive operations and supports broader interagency efforts to impose consequences on malicious actors.
Proactive Defense Through TrendAI Vision One™.
Our platform delivers extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities that correlate threat data across the entire attack surface: endpoints, email, servers, cloud workloads, and networks. By automatically connecting weak signals into high-fidelity detections, enables security teams to identify and disrupt adversary campaigns earlier in the kill chain, before objectives are achieved. This shifts agencies from a reactive "alert triage" model to a proactive threat-hunting posture that genuinely shapes adversary behavior.
Collaboration With Government Partners.
We have a long history of collaboration with U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. By regularly sharing threat intelligence, we contribute to joint operations targeting cybercriminal infrastructure and support efforts to dismantle ransomware ecosystems. We are committed to deepening these partnerships as the strategy moves into implementation.
Pillar 2: Promote Common-Sense Regulations
The second pillar focuses on regulatory reform in cybersecurity. Rather than imposing costly, checkbox-driven compliance frameworks, the strategy emphasizes streamlining processes to make compliance easier, less resource-intensive, and more outcome-focused, while reinforcing the right to privacy.
The Challenge
Federal agencies and the contractors that support them face a complex web of overlapping cybersecurity regulations, frameworks, and reporting requirements. Compliance efforts consume significant resources — staff time, budget, and operational focus — that could otherwise be directed toward improving security outcomes. Agencies need solutions that help them meet regulatory obligations efficiently while maintaining a strong security posture and protecting the privacy of citizens' data.
How TrendAI™ Helps
Streamlined Compliance Through Integrated Security.
TrendAI Vision One™ consolidates multiple security functions — endpoint protection, network defense, email security, cloud workload protection, and XDR — into a single, unified AI security platform. This consolidation reduces the number of disparate tools agencies must manage, simplifies reporting, and makes it significantly easier to demonstrate compliance across frameworks such as NIST CSF, FISMA, FedRAMP, and CMMC. Rather than bolting compliance as an afterthought, agencies can build it into their operational security fabric from day one.
Automated Risk Assessment and Reporting.
Our attack surface risk management capabilities continuously assess an agency's risk posture, identifying misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and policy gaps in real time. Automated reporting maps findings directly to regulatory requirements, reducing the manual effort of audit preparation and enabling agencies to focus their limited resources on remediating actual risks rather than generating paperwork.
Privacy-By-Design Architecture.
We understand that privacy is not at odds with security — it is a core component of it. Our solutions are designed with data minimization, role-based access controls, and encryption at rest and in transit as foundational elements. We help agencies implement security controls that protect sensitive citizen data while meeting evolving privacy regulations, ensuring that stronger security does not come at the expense of civil liberties.
Reducing Tool Sprawl and Total Cost.
A key theme of this pillar is reducing the resource burden of compliance. Agencies operating dozens of point security products face not only licensing costs but also integration challenges, training overhead, and operational complexity. Our platform approach directly addresses this by reducing tool sprawl, lowering total cost of ownership, and freeing up skilled personnel to focus on mission-critical work rather than tool management.
Pillar 3: Modernize and Secure Federal Government Networks
The third pillar calls for accelerating the modernization of federal systems by implementing best practices and adopting new technologies, including post-quantum cryptography, zero-trust architecture, and cloud technologies. It specifically recommends adopting AI-powered solutions to defend systems and deter external threats.
The Challenge
Many federal networks still rely on legacy infrastructure that was not designed for today's threat landscape. Modernization is not optional — aging systems are increasingly difficult to patch, monitor, and defend. At the same time, agencies must navigate the transition to zero-trust architectures, prepare for the cryptographic implications of quantum computing, and migrate workloads to cloud environments, all while maintaining continuous operations and protecting sensitive data. The attack surface is expanding, and adversaries are exploiting the seams between old and new systems.
How TrendAI™ Helps
Zero-Trust Architecture Support.
Our platform is purpose-built to support zero-trust principles. The platform provides continuous verification of users, devices, and workloads across hybrid environments. Our attack surface risk management capabilities deliver real-time visibility into every asset — managed and unmanaged — and continuously evaluate trust posture based on behavior, vulnerability status, and configuration compliance. This enables agencies to implement zero-trust not as a one-time project but as a continuously enforced operating model aligned with CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model and NIST 800-207.
AI-Powered Threat Defense.
The strategy explicitly calls for AI-powered solutions, and TrendAI has been at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to cybersecurity for over two decades. Our platform leverages AI across the detection and response lifecycle: machine learning models identify novel malware variants and fileless attacks; natural language processing powers our TrendAI Companion™ AI assistant, enabling analysts to investigate threats using plain-language queries; and generative AI accelerates incident response by automatically correlating alerts, summarizing attack chains, and recommending response actions. These capabilities allow agencies with lean security teams to operate at a level typically reserved for larger organizations.
Cloud Security for Federal Workloads.
As agencies accelerate cloud migration, we provide comprehensive protection for cloud-native and hybrid environments. Our cloud security solutions protect workloads across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform with runtime protection, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring purpose-built for containers, serverless functions, and cloud infrastructure. Our platform extends XDR capabilities seamlessly into the cloud, ensuring that visibility and detection do not degrade as workloads move off premises. Our FedRAMP-authorized solutions ensure agencies can adopt cloud technologies with confidence.
Post-Quantum Readiness.
As the federal government begins its transition to post-quantum cryptography in alignment with NIST standards, we are committed to ensuring our solutions support agencies through this migration. We are actively monitoring the evolving cryptographic landscape and incorporating post-quantum considerations into our product roadmap so that agencies leveraging our platform are positioned to meet upcoming mandates without disruption.
Legacy System Protection.
Modernization takes time, and agencies cannot leave legacy systems undefended during the transition. We provide virtual patching capabilities through our network and endpoint solutions, shielding vulnerable legacy systems from exploitation even when vendor patches are unavailable or cannot be applied due to operational constraints. This capability buys agencies critical time to modernize at a sustainable pace without accepting undue risk.
Looking Ahead
The first three pillars of the National Cyber Strategy lay out the groundwork for a more resilient, proactive, and efficiently governed federal cybersecurity posture. TrendAI™ is proud to serve as a trusted partner to government agencies working to turn this strategy into operational reality.
Whether it is providing the threat intelligence that shapes adversary behavior, simplifying the compliance landscape through integrated security, or delivering the AI-powered, zero-trust-ready platform that modernization demands, TrendAI Vision One™ is built for this moment.
In a future blog, we will examine Pillars 4 through 6 — securing critical infrastructure, sustaining superiority in emerging technologies, and building the cyber workforce of the future — and how we continue to support each of these critical objectives.
To learn more about how we can support your agency's cybersecurity mission, visit Proactive Cybersecurity for Government or contact your TrendAI™ account representative.