Anthropic launches Cyber Mission with Critical Infrastructure Defense Program
Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term initiative to support defenders in securing critical infrastructure and open-source software. The program addresses the growing threat of AI-enabled cyber attacks by providing frontier models, on-site engineers, and threat research to trusted providers.
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Get free security scans for your open-source code
What you get You can find code bugs and check security risks.
Scans open-source code for vulnerabilities using AI models.
- Who for
- founders and operations
- Cost
- free
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Find code bugs
- Check security risks
- Get fix suggestions
Watch out Reports are model-generated and may contain inaccuracies
Key points from the news
- Anthropic launched the Cyber Mission to secure critical infrastructure and open-source software.
- The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program partners with Accenture, CrowdStrike, and others.
- OSS Scanner offers free, automated security scans for open-source projects.
A key component is the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP), which partners with organizations like Accenture, CrowdStrike, and Deloitte to secure operational technology in power grids, water systems, and transportation networks. These partners are already using Claude models to fix vulnerabilities and help customers do the same. Anthropic notes that while AI makes finding vulnerabilities easier, verifying and fixing them remains a slow, manual process that often takes months.
For open-source software, Anthropic introduced OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in service that provides periodic security scans from its strongest models. Inspired by Google’s OSS-Fuzz, the tool sends model-generated reports including proof of concepts and suggested fixes, with an expected true-positive rate above 90%. Anthropic also announced funding for organizations like the Python Software Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation to support these defensive efforts.
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Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
Anthropic · 7 October 2026
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