TrendAI™ and Anthropic Advance AI-Powered Vulnerability Detection and Risk Mitigation with Claude Opus 4.7

Collaboration bridges gap between vulnerability discovery and real-world risk reduction

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 5 May 2026 - TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced a collaboration with Anthropic to support the expanded deployment of Claude Opus 4.7 for security research. Through this collaboration, organizations can reduce real-world risk faster: leveraging AI-accelerated threat intelligence to identify, prioritize, and mitigate exploitable vulnerabilities before they impact the business.

TrendAI™ is participating in Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program, which provides credentials to engage in the defensive use of frontier AI models.

Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™: "AI is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery, but remediation timelines haven't kept pace. Our collaboration with Anthropic ensures that organizations get the best vulnerability threat intelligence and the ability to reduce risk across their environments before attacks take place."

TrendAI™ launched AESIR (AI-Enhanced Security, Intelligence, and Research), an AI-powered internal security research platform that combines machine-speed automation with human expert oversight, in 2025. AESIR uses Claude Opus 4.7 to reason like an attacker, determining what's reachable, what's controllable, and what's exploitable across complex software ecosystems. At scale, this means autonomously discovering and proving real vulnerabilities. TrendAI Vision One™ builds on these insights by prioritizing, mapping attack paths, and enabling swift mitigation—including virtual patching—across hybrid environments.

TrendAI™ is operating at the intersection of the two most critical dynamics in cybersecurity today: the AI models driving the new threat landscape, and the AI-powered defenses needed to match them. AESIR has already uncovered and, with ZDI, collaborated on patching for critical CVEs across industry-leading AI platforms including NVIDIA, Tencent, agentic frameworks, and MCP tooling.. The TrendAI State of AI Security Report projects between 2,800 and 3,600 AI CVEs in 2026 alone; AESIR was built precisely to operate at that scale.

To learn more about how TrendAI™ is advancing AI-powered security, visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_hk/research/26/a/aesir.html

The collaboration between TrendAI™ and Anthropic pushes the industry forward by combining AI-driven code intelligence and real-world risk prioritization. The ability to determine which vulnerabilities pose real-world risk, prioritize them, and mitigate them before they are exploited has become critical. With TrendAI Vision One™, organizations can operationalize findings by determining asset exposure, identifying attack paths, and applying controls like virtual patching and exploit detection. This reduces risk quickly, even when code fixes require more time. This is crucial for production environments, where vulnerabilities are often discovered after deployment.

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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. AI Fearlessly.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its Claude family of models, including Claude Opus 4.7, enables advanced capabilities across a wide range of applications, including code understanding and security analysis.

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach Newswire - 5 May 2026 - TrendAI™, the enterprise AI security leader from Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), today announced a collaboration with Anthropic to support the expanded deployment of Claude Opus 4.7 for security research. Through this collaboration, organizations can reduce real-world risk faster: leveraging AI-accelerated threat intelligence to identify, prioritize, and mitigate exploitable vulnerabilities before they impact the business.

TrendAI™ is participating in Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program, which provides credentials to engage in the defensive use of frontier AI models.

Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™: "AI is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery, but remediation timelines haven't kept pace. Our collaboration with Anthropic ensures that organizations get the best vulnerability threat intelligence and the ability to reduce risk across their environments before attacks take place."

TrendAI™ launched AESIR (AI-Enhanced Security, Intelligence, and Research), an AI-powered internal security research platform that combines machine-speed automation with human expert oversight, in 2025. AESIR uses Claude Opus 4.7 to reason like an attacker, determining what's reachable, what's controllable, and what's exploitable across complex software ecosystems. At scale, this means autonomously discovering and proving real vulnerabilities. TrendAI Vision One™ builds on these insights by prioritizing, mapping attack paths, and enabling swift mitigation—including virtual patching—across hybrid environments.

TrendAI™ is operating at the intersection of the two most critical dynamics in cybersecurity today: the AI models driving the new threat landscape, and the AI-powered defenses needed to match them. AESIR has already uncovered and, with ZDI, collaborated on patching for critical CVEs across industry-leading AI platforms including NVIDIA, Tencent, agentic frameworks, and MCP tooling.. The TrendAI State of AI Security Report projects between 2,800 and 3,600 AI CVEs in 2026 alone; AESIR was built precisely to operate at that scale.

To learn more about how TrendAI™ is advancing AI-powered security, visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_hk/research/26/a/aesir.html

The collaboration between TrendAI™ and Anthropic pushes the industry forward by combining AI-driven code intelligence and real-world risk prioritization. The ability to determine which vulnerabilities pose real-world risk, prioritize them, and mitigate them before they are exploited has become critical. With TrendAI Vision One™, organizations can operationalize findings by determining asset exposure, identifying attack paths, and applying controls like virtual patching and exploit detection. This reduces risk quickly, even when code fixes require more time. This is crucial for production environments, where vulnerabilities are often discovered after deployment.

Hashtag: #trendmicro, #trendvisionone, #visionone, #aisecurity, #anthropic, #ClaudeOpus

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About Trend Micro

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. AI Fearlessly.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its Claude family of models, including Claude Opus 4.7, enables advanced capabilities across a wide range of applications, including code understanding and security analysis.

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SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 6 May 2026 - As global education systems evolve to meet rapidly changing workforce demands, micro credentials are gaining traction as a flexible complement to traditional degrees rather than a replacement, according to international policy bodies and education experts. Micro credentials, defined by the European Union as certifications of "learning outcomes of short-term learning experiences," are designed to provide targeted, skills-based learning in a shorter timeframe.

Meanwhile, UNESCO notes that micro credentials typically focus on "a specific set of learning outcomes in a narrow field" and are achieved over a shorter period compared to traditional qualifications such as degrees. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD further highlight their growing role in supporting lifelong learning and employability, particularly as individuals seek to upskill and reskill in response to labour market changes.

Complementary, Not Competing Pathways

While micro credentials are often positioned as an alternative to degrees, global evidence suggests that the two serve different but complementary purposes. Traditional degrees remain the primary pathway for developing broad based knowledge, critical thinking, and foundational expertise, often required for entry into professional fields. In contrast, micro credentials offer targeted, flexible learning that can address specific skills gaps at different career stages.

International frameworks increasingly emphasise this complementary role. European policy discussions describe micro credentials as part of flexible learning pathways that can be stacked or combined with larger qualifications, enabling more personalised education journeys.

Relevance to Singapore's Lifelong Learning Agenda

In Singapore, the emphasis on lifelong learning driven by national initiatives such as SkillsFuture aligns with global developments in modular and flexible education pathways. This approach reflects a growing recognition that learning does not end with a degree, and that individuals increasingly require ongoing access to short form, skills-based education throughout their careers.

Institutions such as the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) illustrate how this shift is being operationalised in practice. With a stated commitment to lifelong learning embedded in its education model, SIM supports learners across different life stages, from pre-employment education to professional and continuing education.

SIM offers more than 140 academic programmes in partnership with international universities, alongside a wide range of professional short courses and micro credentials. This enables learners to combine foundational degree education with targeted skills development, reflecting the growing adoption of stackable and modular learning pathways.

The institution supports approximately 17,000 students annually and has a network of close to 200,000 graduates, positioning it as a significant player in Singapore's education and lifelong learning ecosystem. Learning is delivered through a mix of in person, online and blended formats, providing flexibility for both full time students and working professionals to upskill and reskill in response to changing industry demands.

Implications for Students and Employer

For students, micro credentials offer greater flexibility across different stages of learning and career development. Undergraduates can explore areas of interest beyond their primary discipline through short form learning, while fresh graduates can supplement academic knowledge with job relevant skills to improve employability. Mid-career professionals are also able to reskill or pivot into new roles without committing to full time study.

For employers, this shift highlights the need to evaluate both foundational and applied capabilities. Degrees continue to signal broad based knowledge, critical thinking and discipline, while micro credentials provide evidence of current, job specific skills. Taken together, these credentials offer a more complete view of an individual's readiness and adaptability in a rapidly changing workforce.

A Shift Toward Stackable Learning

The future of education is increasingly defined by a stackable and modular approach, where degrees and micro credentials are combined to support continuous learning. Degrees provide the foundational knowledge and academic grounding, while micro credentials enable targeted skills development that can be applied in real time. This approach underscores a broader transition from one time qualification attainment to lifelong capability building, where learning is continuous, adaptable and aligned with changing workforce needs.

References:

1. European Commission European Education Area A European approach to micro credentials - https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/micro-credentials
2. UNESCO Towards a common definition of micro credentials - https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381668
3. OECD Micro credentials for lifelong learning and employability - https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/micro-credentials-for-lifelong-learning-and-employability_9c4b7b68-en.html
4. Skillsfuture Singapore - https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/
5. Singapore Institute of Management – https://www.sim.edu.sg

Hashtag: #SIMGlobalEducation #SIMGE #GlobalEducation #InternationalDegree #CareerReady #FutureSkills

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About SIM Global Education

SIM Global Education (SIM GE) is a leading private education institution in Singapore and the region. We offer more than 140 academic programmes ranging from diplomas and graduate diploma programmes to bachelor's and master's degree programmes with some of the world's most reputable universities from Australia, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, and the United States. SIM GE's cohort is made up of 17,000 full- and part-time students and adult learners, of which approximately 41% are international students hailing from over 50 countries.

SIM GE's holistic learning approach and culturally diverse learning environment aim to equip students with knowledge, industry skills and employability competencies, as well as a global perspective to succeed as future leaders in a fast-changing, technologically driven world.

For more information on SIM Global Education, visit www.sim.edu.sg

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