Anthropic launches Cyber Mission on October 8 with CIDP and OSS Scanner

Anthropic formally launched Cyber Mission on October 8 as a long-term commitment to defend critical systems and software with AI. The initiative has two core components. The first is the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program CIDP, focused on protecting operational technology in power grids, water systems, transport networks and government systems, providing frontier Claude models, embedded engineers and threat research support, while folding the earlier Project Glasswing into the expanded Cyber Verification Program. CIDP has eleven founding partners: Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation. The second is OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanning service for open source projects, inspired by Google's OSS-Fuzz, with an expected true-positive rate above 90%. Funders include the Python Software Foundation, Alpha-Omega, OpenSSF, the Apache Software Foundation, Akrites and Gold Eagle, and Anthropic will fund pilots and keep OSS Scanner free through the Defender Advantage Fund 0xDAF. Anthropic said the 15 million dollar cyber defense program launched in June for state, local, tribal and territorial governments now covers more than half of US states, and the company expects AI to start favoring defenders meaningfully within two years.