Unveiling an Answer for All the Inefficiencies Associated with Traditional SIEM

Trend Micro Incorporated, a global cybersecurity leader, has officially announced the launch of its new agentic AI technology, which is designed to solve the traditional pain points long associated with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). 

According to certain reports, when combined with Trend’s digital twin capabilities, the stated technology treads up a long distance to transform security operations, doing so chiefly on the back of proactively mitigating security risks.

To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account a fact that, even though SIEM technology has been around for decades, users continue to face, till this day, longstanding issues including cost, complexity, alert overload, and passive data lakes. 

In case that wasn’t enough, traditional SIEMs tend to rely on manual configuration and static parsers, making up a setup which can’t keep up with the pace or variety of modern data sources.

Against that, Trend’s Agentic SIEM technology arrives bearing an ability to address these very challenges. You see, solution basically banks upon next generation of AI technology to proactively think, learn, and act. More on the same would reveal how it cuts through alert noise so to reduce workloads for overburdened security teams. 

“As the cybersecurity stack increasingly becomes AI driven, the security data layer must evolve to support data-hungry agentic capabilities, including infusing agentic AI into core SIEM functions. Trend Vision One Agentic SIEM enters the SIEM market at a pivotal time, leveraging Agentic AI from the ground up to drive speed, performance, and a new level of risk-driven, contextual insights to rapidly mitigate cyber threat activity,” said Dave Gruber, Principal Cybersecurity Analyst at ESG. 

Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from how the Trend Micro’s SIEM technology can support, at launch, more than 900 data sources, a feature that should come in handy to scale up visibility, context, and threat detection.

Next up, there is the prospect of three-day onboarding for new log types. Trend Micro, in fact, aims to take the given timeline to three hours by 2026, thus significantly reducing the risk of unknown in enterprise environments. 

Another detail worth a mention relates to the way Trend’s proven XDR capabilities feature six native security sensors across endpoint, cloud, email, networks, servers, and identity. Agentic SIEM also brings in third-party telemetry to provide a full view of the environment.

Apart from it, users can also come expecting upto seven years of archival data retention and two years of analytic retention for enhanced detection, threat hunting, and compliance support.

Turning our attention towards some of the possible use cases for this technology, they include threat detection and response, where the technology can seamlessly replace manual log and alert monitoring with autonomous data analysis, anomaly detection, and response to cut down on time required for detecting and mitigating threats.

The next use case in line would be of compliance support. In this regard, the technology can effectively combine extended data retention with the ability to search archival logs, and therefore, meet audit and regulatory requirements in a much easier manner.

Incident investigation also stands to gain substantial amount of value, as the technology can replace manual, time-consuming and error-prone investigations with automated data correlation from multiple sources to accelerate the process and enhance accuracy.

Founded in 1988, Trend Micro’s rise up the ranks stems from protecting hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. The company’s technology is presently focused on providing advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google.

Trend Micro’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you consider it enjoys, as of today, a strong presence in more than 70 different countries.

“Agentic SIEM is a major stepping stone to our long-term vision for full, AI-driven SecOps. It’s a future in which security teams will have more time to work on strategic tasks, safe in the knowledge that our agentic AI has their backs. With this launch, Trend is once again laying down a marker for cybersecurity innovation and global market leadership,” said Rachel Jin, Chief Enterprise Platform Officer at Trend Micro.