Google AI
The Times Australia

Times Media Advertising

TrendAI™ Launches Inception Program to Power the Next Wave of Secure AI Innovation

Supported by AWS, GMI Cloud, and the AI startup ecosystem, initiative will equip more companies to deliver AI solutions that customers trust

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 3 June 2026 - TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), announced an initiative at Computex today designed to empower the broad AI solution providers to build, validate, and bring secure-by-design AI to market faster.

The program combines AI security expertise, technical enablement, and go-to-market support to help partners accelerate securely without having to independently build deep AI security expertise.

To find out more about the TrendAI™ Inception Program, please visit:
https://resources.trendmicro.com/TrendAI-Inception-Partner-Program.html

Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer at TrendAI™: "AI is moving into production faster than most organizations are prepared to secure. But as customer interest grows, so does scrutiny of threat actors. Many AI builders lack dedicated security teams or experience defending AI systems at scale. We're offering our unique expertise to help these businesses bring trusted, secure AI solutions to market faster so they can turn innovation into real, enterprise-ready outcomes."

AI startups may innovate quickly, but enterprise customers buy based on trust, governance, and security maturity. TrendAITM helps close that gap.

The program is designed to help emerging AI providers to strengthen AI maturity early across the full AI stack, including models, pipelines, agents, and data, through technical enablement, AI security benefits, and partner-focused benefits, including:

  • AI Red or Purple Teaming Service (at a preferred partner discount) — Conducted by TrendAITM experts, validating your AI application's resilience against prompt injection, jailbreak, system prompt leakage, and tool-abuse scenarios, benchmarked against OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS frameworks with validation reports. Ship with confidence — secured by design.
  • Free Credits — Six months of complimentary TrendAI Vision One™ AI Security access to test and validate in your development or PoC environment.
  • Integration and Enablement — Reference architectures, SDKs/APIs, and integration examples aligned with common AI development frameworks.
  • Customer-Facing Ready Security Assets — White papers and solution briefs to help you communicate AI security value to your customers.
  • AI Security Advisory & Mentorship — Structured training and expert guidance covering AI security best practices, threat awareness, and implementation recommendations for development teams.
  • Co-Marketing & Visibility to Customers— Joint presence at TrendAI™ Spark events and listing on the TrendAI™ Partner Locator to expand your reach and connect with customers seeking qualified AI partners.

TrendAI™ partners, including GMI Cloud, are building and deploying their platforms that will drive the next wave of AI-powered innovation. The Inception Program was designed in direct response to requests from AI startups that need trusted security validation to accelerate enterprise adoption.

Alex Yeh, Founder & CEO at GMI Cloud: "As enterprises move AI from experimentation to large-scale deployment, security is becoming a critical part of the AI infrastructure stack. At GMI Cloud, we focus on delivering scalable AI infrastructure and inference platforms built for real-world enterprise adoption. We also recognize that AI introduces new attack surfaces across models, agents, data pipelines, and inference workflows. Through the Inception Program, we can combine scalable AI infrastructure with TrendAI™'s decades of cybersecurity expertise to help customers deploy AI with greater trust, governance, and operational confidence. Together, we're enabling more secure, scalable, and enterprise-ready AI deployments."

Robin Wong, COO of Ontonics Lab Co., an AI-native industrial intelligence startup backed by LCY Group and Eternal Materials, commented: "At Ontonics Lab, cybersecurity is a fundamental part of our product design philosophy. As an AI-native platform serving industrial enterprises, we must ensure the highest standards of security, reliability, and trust from day one. TrendAI™'s Purple Teaming experts can help us validate our architecture, uncover vulnerabilities that might otherwise have gone unnoticed, and strengthen our platform before launch. This independent TrendAI™ validation enhances customer trust and provides a clear competitive advantage as we bring AI-native solutions to industrial enterprises."

As part of TrendAI Vision One™ AI Security, partners in the Inception Program will be able to access an AI Security Package that includes data and security posture management, real-time scanning tools, secure access, agentic SIEM, and more.

Hashtag: #trendai #trendmicro #trendvisionone #visionone #inception #aisecurity





The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

About TrendAI™

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities to infrastructure to data. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on TrendAI™ to cut risk and stop threats up to three months earlier, powered by world-leading threat and attack intelligence. Through deep ecosystem partnerships with market leaders like NVIDIA, Anthropic, AWS, Google, and Microsoft, TrendAI™ empowers your organization to securely drive forward at the speed of AI. AI Fearlessly. Learn more at trendaisecurity.com.

Times Magazine

VoltX Energy expands into Victoria & ACT to meet surging home battery demand

Leading Australian energy solutions provider VoltX Energy and premier sponsor of the NRL Manly Wa...

Victorian Drivers To Receive 20% Rego Rebate From June 1 In Major Cost-Of-Living Measure

Victorian motorists will begin receiving significant registration savings from June 1 as the Allan...

How Australian Businesses Are Using AI To Cut Costs And Improve Efficiency

Artificial intelligence was once viewed by many small business owners as something futuristic, exp...

Quickest Way of Getting Rid of Your Old Cars in Brisbane?

If you are done searching for a practical solution for quickly getting rid of your old car, this w...

The Human Supplement Craze Has Officially Gone to the Dogs (Literally)

Australians’ appetite for supplements is no longer limited to their own vitamin cabinets. New reta...

AI Guilt: It’s Real — But it is irrational

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful tools ever made available to ...

Australians Are Keeping Their Cars Longer — And It’s Changing The Market

Australia’s car market is undergoing a subtle but important transformation. People are keeping th...

Streaming Fatigue: Australians Overwhelmed By Subscriptions

Streaming was once supposed to simplify entertainment. Instead, many Australians now feel overwhe...

Why Shopping Centres No Longer Feel Exciting

There was a time when going to the shopping centre felt like an event. Families spent entire Satu...

The Times Features

Most Australians think the Budget Just Changed the Rule…

A generation of Australians may be entering the biggest rethink of wealth creation since the rise ...

Remember All-You-Can-Eat Restaurants? Australia Still M…

For many Australians, few dining experiences created more excitement than the words: “All you can ...

Australia’s Changing Family Dynamic: When Adult Childre…

Australia’s housing affordability crisis is no longer simply an economic issue. It is reshaping t...

ASX Movements Since Labor’s Budget: What Investors Are …

Australia’s share market has spent recent weeks digesting the implications of Labor’s federal budg...

QLD Day

On Saturday 6 June, parkrun events across the state will be a sea of maroon, with communities  str...

NAGNATA: ‘FUTURE = FIBRE’ — Movement 21 at AFW 2026 …

Photography by Cesar OcampoOn Day 3 of Australian Fashion Week 2026, the energy at the runway shifte...

Flu Season in Australia: Why Health Authorities Are Tak…

As winter settles across Australia, so too does the annual flu season — a recurring health challen...

Smart Supermarket Shopping: The Money-Saving Hacks Aust…

Australians are becoming smarter supermarket shoppers. Rising grocery prices, higher mortgage rep...

Kmart’s Homewares Revolution: How a Discount Retailer B…

There was a time when many Australians viewed Kmart as the place to buy low-cost basics, school su...