
What happened
Anthropic announced Anthropic Cyber Mission on October 8, starting with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP) and OSS Scanner. CIDP gives critical infrastructure security providers access to Claude frontier models, on-site engineers, and threat research, with founding partners including Accenture, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Hitachi, and Palo Alto Networks.
Why it matters
The move gives security providers defending power grids, water systems and transport networks access to Anthropic's most advanced models, engineers and threat research, with the partner list spanning consulting, cybersecurity and industrial automation firms.
WHO IT HITSCritical infrastructure security providers defending OT (operational technology — the control equipment and industrial networks behind power grids, water systems and transport networks) are the first to get access, along with open-source project maintainers who can apply for free scanning.
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