Trend Micro Launches Risk to Resilience World Tour in Mumbai
Mumbai: Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity, has launched the India chapter of its Risk to Resilience World Tour 2025 in Mumbai. The event brought together over 130 security leaders from 70 organizations to discuss the importance of proactive security in the age of AI.
Key Highlights
The theme of this year’s tour is “Proactive Security Starts Here,” highlighting the need to move from reactive defenses to forward-looking, AI-driven security strategies. Trend Micro’s AI-powered platform, Trend Vision One, integrated with the specialized cybersecurity LLM, TrendCybertron, combines predictive analytics, risk scoring, and automated remediation across environments.
Quote from Sharda Tickoo
Sharda Tickoo, Country Manager for India & SAARC at Trend Micro, emphasized that defensive AI is outpacing offensive AI, enabling real-time detection, automated response, and proactive threat mitigation. She introduced Agentic AI as a paradigm shift in cybersecurity, where intelligent AI agents work in parallel, sharing context to deliver unified, pre-emptive protection.
Panel Discussion
The panel discussion, “Proactive Security in the Age of AI,” brought together Rajesh Thapar, CISO, NSE, and Abhijit Chakravarty, EVP – Networks & Cybersecurity, Kotak Mahindra Bank. They discussed the importance of proactive security, visibility, and vulnerability prioritization, and the role of AI in augmenting SOC capabilities.
Key Takeaways
- Proactive security has become a strategic imperative, requiring alignment within the ecosystem.
- Visibility into unmanaged assets and user activity is crucial for proactive security.
- Contextual risk-based methods are needed for vulnerability prioritization.
- AI can greatly augment SOC capabilities, but human oversight is required for effective and responsible security operations.
Future Plans
The Mumbai event marks the beginning of a four-city India tour, with the next leg scheduled to happen on June 20, 2025, in Kolkata.
