AIToday
AI Business & IndustryITmedia AI+Published: Oct 9, 2026, 16:00 JST

Anthropic Cyber Mission launches CIDP, OSS Scanner

Anthropic Cyber Mission launches CIDP, OSS Scanner

3 Key Points

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Not sure about something? Ask the AI

Questions and answers are published on this page.

Summaries like this, in your inbox every morning.

FAQ
Who are the founding partners of CIDP?
The 11 founding partners are Accenture, Booz Allen, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Dragos, Hitachi, Insane Cyber, Nozomi Networks, Palo Alto Networks, PwC and Rockwell Automation. Anthropic plans to expand partners and target sectors over the coming months.
How can an open-source project get scanned by OSS Scanner?
Projects that have a large impact on infrastructure or user security can apply by having a core maintainer submit a pull request to a GitHub repository. Projects without the capacity to handle a large volume of reports are still reported to only after human verification.

AI news that matters for your work, delivered every morning.

Pick your industry and the AI tools you use, and get news related to your work every day.

Free · 30 seconds with Google · unsubscribe anytimeWhat is AIToday? →

Ask AI

Ask AI anything about this article. The AI reads this article, earlier AIToday articles, and Wikipedia, and cites its sources. Q&As are published on this page for other readers too.

Questions and answers are published on this page.

Related Articles

Next articleFirmus scraps $5 billion IPO; Maas Group falls 6.7%