Anthropic launches Cyber Mission for defenders
Anthropic has launched the Cyber Mission, a long-term program that gives critical-infrastructure defenders and open-source maintainers its frontier models, engineers and funding, after its earlier Project Glasswing effort fell short of reducing cyber risk enough.
Anthropic on Thursday announced the Anthropic Cyber Mission, which it calls a long-term effort to give defenders tools, research and resources. The program starts with two areas: critical infrastructure and open-source software.
For critical infrastructure, the company introduced the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP). The program gives frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and Anthropic threat research to the providers that secure operational technology (OT). OT is the controllers and industrial networks that run power grids, water systems and transportation, and it often can't be taken offline for patching. The founding partners are Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation. Anthropic said several partners are already using Claude to fix vulnerabilities. It is starting with a small group of providers to learn which approaches work.
For open source, Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, a free service that gives open-source projects regular security scans from its strongest models.
Anthropic described the effort as a response to Project Glasswing. It said partners in that project found many vulnerabilities, but cyber risk has not fallen enough, because verifying, prioritizing and fixing the findings is still hard. Earlier this week the company folded Glasswing into an expanded Cyber Verification Program, which gives more defenders access to its most capable models.
The announcement says frontier models can be misused for cyber operations and that state-sponsored adversaries have spent years gaining footholds in critical systems. Anthropic said it will expand the Cyber Mission to more areas over time.
The available text does not include OSS Scanner's eligibility rules, funding amounts or performance figures.