TrendAI™ Research
Frontier AI meets boots-on-the-ground research. We find the threat before it has a name, so you're protected before it has a target.
Frontier research. Frontline protection.
TrendAI™ Research translates threat discovery, vulnerability research, malware analysis, and cybercrime investigation directly into TrendAI Vision One™ protection. The platform extends the reach of our elite researchers who identify threats that organizations can't see on their own and stop them before they reach their target. Protection begins before vulnerabilities become public, powered by researchers whose intelligence helps disrupt cybercriminal infrastructure worldwide.
An average 115-day head start against threats
Industry-leading TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) delivers pre-disclosure threat intelligence - including virtual patching, early warnings, and automatic exploit blocking - an average of 115 days before vendor patches or public disclosure. While other security vendors begin protecting customers only after a TrendAI™ ZDI-discovered CVE is published, TrendAI Vision One™ customers are already protected. Built on more than 20 years of researcher relationships that no vendor can replicate overnight, TrendAI™ ZDI is TrendAI's proprietary program – not a third-party feed.
From AI discovery to customer protection
Our agentic exploit-remediation engine turns frontier AI–accelerated vulnerability discovery into validated, actionable protection, combining autonomous security research, source-code analysis, real-world exploitation hunting, and human-directed disclosure.
Powered by frontier AI models, it combines agentic AI with 20+ years of vulnerability research and intelligence from TrendAI™ Research and TrendAI™ ZDI, creating an advantage that stateless AI agents can’t replicate.
Scale and depth of research
450+ researchers across 18 countries and 6 continents draw on native telemetry from 250 million sensors in 175 countries. Insights from 25,000 enterprise organizations and 17 million individuals feed a continuous loop that strengthens protection for everyone.
Global law enforcement partnerships
Since 2013, TrendAI™ has trained over 500 cybercrime investigators across 98 countries through Interpol's capability-building program, supporting more than 150 active law enforcement investigations each year, contributing to major takedowns like LockBit and LabHost in 2024.
The Leader in vulnerability research
For more than 20 years, TrendAI™ ZDI has operated the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program, bringing together more than 20,000 researchers through multiple global hacking events each year. Deep researcher relationships give us visibility into vulnerabilities before they're CVEs, before patches are available, and before adversaries know they're exploitable. Every finding is discovered, validated, and responsibly disclosed through coordinated channels, closing the window attackers rely on.
How TrendAI™ Research outpaces today's cybersecurity landscape
Cyber threats
Built on over 30 years of cybersecurity leadership, hundreds of global threat researchers, and insights across cloud, web, email, network, server, endpoint, mobile, and IoT/IIoT/OT environments, our solutions offer the broadest attack and threat coverage.
The internet of things (IoT), industrial IoT (IIoT), and operational technology (OT)
Cyber criminals target critical infrastructure using IoT/IIoT/OT as common avenues of attack. TrendAI™ and TrendAI™ ZDI have collected extensive threat intelligence from customers using these platforms, giving us deeper insights into attack surface threats.
Cloud infrastructure
TrendAI™ understands the attacks and threats targeting this infrastructure better than most. The cloud research team takes an attack-driven approach that begins with threat modeling to inform potential attack scenarios, with defenses then built into existing and future products.
Targeted attacks
Our researchers are constantly analyzing targeted attacks to better understand how adversaries’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) evolve. Based on years of adversarial and campaign intelligence, our AI models track their next steps to help customers withstand them.
Cybercriminal undergrounds
We have invaluable insights into cybercriminal undergrounds. Decades-long partnerships with Interpol, Europol, the United Nations, the FBI, the United States Secret Service, and law enforcement around the globe have given us early insights into cybercriminal operations while helping us make the world safer.
AI and machine learning
Powered by our agentic exploit-remediation engine, an AI-enhanced security research platform built on frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, we autonomously discover zero-day vulnerabilities and re-score threats at machine speed, applying nearly 20 years of AI/GenAI and ML experience to keep pace with AI-driven adversaries.
Future threats
Our forward-looking threat research team continually assesses the evolving cybersecurity landscape to predict potential threats while mapping out viable security strategies.
Proactive threat defense
Imagine being protected from cyber threats months before they strike. At TrendAI™, our industry-leading threat intelligence makes this a reality.
Impact
#1 on CyberGym with a 97% exploit benchmark score
127B+
Threats blocked in 2025 alone
On average of preemptive pre-disclosure protection for TrendAI Vision One™ customers
115 days
Zero-days tracked live and continuously updated for preemptive protection
2,600+
Cybersecurity insights
2026 Cyber Risk Report
2026 Security Predictions
