As Saudi Arabia accelerates its ambitions during the Year of Artificial Intelligence, the question facing enterprises is no longer whether to adopt AI, but how to do so securely. With autonomous agents beginning to access data, make decisions, and act across business systems, the cybersecurity conversation is shifting from protecting infrastructure to governing how AI itself behaves.
Against this backdrop, TrendAI™️ has launched in the Kingdom. Riyadh Daily spoke with Wasna Ben Gassem, Managing Director for Saudi Arabia at TrendAI™️, about the capabilities being introduced to the market, the security implications of agentic AI and what sets TrendAI™️ apart in an increasingly crowded field.
With the launch of TrendAI™️ in Saudi Arabia, what new capabilities are you bringing to customers in the Kingdom?
Launching TrendAI™️ in Saudi Arabia is a proud milestone for us, particularly as the Kingdom accelerates its AI ambitions during the Year of Artificial Intelligence. As AI becomes the next compute layer of the enterprise, cybersecurity must evolve beyond protecting infrastructure and applications to governing how AI systems act, connect, make decisions, and interact with critical business data. That is the vision behind TrendAI™️. Through TrendAI Vision One™️, we are bringing Saudi organisations an AI powered cybersecurity platform that helps them proactively manage cyber risk while securely adopting AI at scale.
The platform combines cyber risk exposure management, security operations, and dedicated AI Security capabilities, giving organisations end to end visibility across their digital environment, intelligent risk prioritisation, faster threat detection and response, and governance for AI systems. Backed by nearly 40 years of threat intelligence, the Zero Day Initiative, and strategic collaborations with NVIDIA and Anthropic, TrendAI™️ helps organisations accelerate AI adoption while ensuring security and governance evolve at the same pace.
What’s genuinely new in TrendAI Vision One™️ compared to the previous product portfolio?
I think the biggest change is in how we’re helping customers approach cybersecurity. In the past, organisations often relied on multiple security tools that operated independently. Today, AI is transforming the way businesses operate, and security teams need a platform that brings everything together, provides a complete view of risk, and enables faster, more informed decisions.
For me, the real evolution is that cybersecurity becomes a business enabler rather than a collection of security tools. TrendAI Vision One™️ brings together cyber risk exposure management, security operations, and AI Security in a single platform, enabling organisations to identify their most critical risks, prioritise remediation based on business impact, and strengthen resilience as AI becomes embedded across the enterprise. It gives leaders the visibility and context they need to make smarter security decisions while supporting their broader business transformation.
Agentic AI is becoming one of the biggest cybersecurity conversations today. Why does it require a completely different security approach?
Agentic AI changes the security conversation because these systems go beyond generating responses. They can access data, interact with business applications, execute tasks, and collaborate with other AI agents. As a result, the challenge shifts from securing the AI model itself to governing what AI agents can do, the data they can access, and the systems they can interact with.
At TrendAI™️, we believe cybersecurity must evolve alongside AI. As organisations scale their use of autonomous AI systems, they need visibility into every AI agent, clear governance over its actions, policy enforcement, and appropriate human oversight for critical decisions. That’s the philosophy behind TrendAI™️ and the AI Security capabilities within TrendAI Vision One™️. Our collaborations with NVIDIA and Anthropic further strengthen this approach by advancing runtime governance for autonomous AI agents, AI vulnerability research, and AI native security operations, helping organisations adopt agentic AI securely and responsibly.
TrendAI™️ says it both uses AI to strengthen cybersecurity and secures AI itself. What does that mean in practice?
AI is transforming cybersecurity from both sides. On one side, we’re using AI to help organisations strengthen their defences by detecting threats faster, prioritising risks more effectively, and enabling security teams to respond with greater speed and precision.
At the same time, organisations are embedding AI into their own business operations through AI models and autonomous agents. That creates a new security challenge because, with agentic AI, the model itself isn’t the primary risk. The real risk lies in the actions an AI agent can take, the data it can access, the tools it can use, and the systems it can interact with. That’s why TrendAI™️ is designed to govern AI behaviour by enforcing policies, monitoring AI activity, and ensuring appropriate human oversight over critical decisions, enabling organisations to adopt AI securely and responsibly.
With so many cybersecurity companies talking about AI security, what sets TrendAI™️ apart?
I believe what distinguishes TrendAI™️ is our long-term vision for cybersecurity in the AI era. AI is evolving rapidly, and staying ahead requires continuous innovation, strong collaboration, and a deep understanding of how the threat landscape is changing. Our focus is on equipping organisations with the capabilities they need today while helping them prepare for what’s next.
That’s why we’re continuously expanding the TrendAI™️ ecosystem through new partnerships, programs, and community initiatives. In recent months, we’ve launched the TrendAI™️ Inception Program to help AI startups build secure-by-design applications, partnered with HackerVerse to deliver autonomous AI-powered adversarial testing, and welcomed S-RM into our ecosystem to strengthen cyber resilience and post-breach response.
Together with our collaborations with NVIDIA and Anthropic, these initiatives reflect our commitment to advancing AI security, accelerating innovation, and helping customers adopt AI with greater confidence. For our customers, this means access to an ecosystem that continues to evolve alongside the AI landscape, delivering the expertise, innovation, and support they need to stay resilient to support their AI transformation journey.
Source: Riyadh Daily