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TrendAI adopts Claude Opus 5 to advance vulnerability prioritisation and virtual patching
As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, TrendAI applies frontier reasoning to convert vulnerability intelligence into faster protection across hybrid environments
TrendAI, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced it is adopting Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s latest and most capable Opus model, to help security teams convert vulnerability intelligence into immediate protection, from prioritisation to virtual patching.
The move builds on TrendAI™’s collaboration with Anthropic on Claude Opus 4.8, extending the same defensive focus to a model that delivers step-change gains in advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and long-horizon analysis. As AI makes finding vulnerabilities easier than ever, the harder problem becomes protecting organisations faster than software can be permanently patched, and that is where TrendAI™ is putting Opus 5 to work.
As a participant in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, which credentials organisations for the defensive use of frontier AI models, TrendAI™ is positioned to apply Claude Opus 5 to defensive security as access becomes available. The model is Zero Data Retention compatible, supporting TrendAI™’s governance and data-protection requirements as it scales AI across security operations.
Mick McCluney, Field Chief Technology Officer, ANZ at TrendAI™: “Claude Opus 5 doesn’t just help us find more vulnerabilities, it helps us reduce risk faster. We’re seeing Australian organisations overwhelmed by discovery volumes but starved for protection speed. TrendAI™ turns that equation around by prioritising what is actually exploitable, protecting before patches land, and turning vulnerability intelligence into measurable risk reduction. That’s how we help customers stay ahead of the AI-accelerated threat timeline, not behind it.”
The work extends to TrendAI™ Threat Research, where frontier AI models are combined with our proprietary frontier intelligence engine and human expertise to generate pre-disclosure intelligence. Those insights power TrendAI Vision One™, delivering stronger detection, deeper forensic insights, and proactive protection through virtual patching.
Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™: “With Claude Opus 5, TrendAI can move from vulnerability intelligence to action faster than ever, prioritising what matters most by exploitability and business impact. Finding the vulnerability was always the hard part. Now the challenge is protecting organisations faster than software can be permanently patched, and frontier reasoning is what changes that equation, extending all the way to virtual patching that protects customers before a vendor fix ships. This is what it means to secure the AI age, fearlessly.”
These capabilities support TrendAI Vision One™ in helping security analysts, AppSec teams, and SOC teams prioritise exposure, map attack paths, and accelerate mitigation, including virtual patching, across hybrid environments, moving vulnerability management from a static scanning process into a faster, context-aware risk mitigation workflow.
