Anthropic rolls out program for ‘long-term commitment’ to secure critical infrastructure, open source software

What happened

Anthropic announced a new program Thursday that will combine its AI tools with outside cybersecurity companies to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and open-source software. Advertised as part of a new, “long-term commitment” to cybersecurity, the critical infrastructure defense program will pair Claude models, Anthropic engineers and threat research with the expertise of cybersecurity companies, including Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC, and Rockwell Automation. “Defenders of critical infrastructure and the [open-source software] community have decades of security experience but have faced severe resource shortages that are exacerbated by this moment,” Anthropic wrote in a blog post. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, founded in 2021, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

Key facts

• Anthropic — announced: a new program Thursday that will combine its AI tools with outside cybersecurity companies to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and open-source software