What happened
Hitachi said on October 9 it will join Anthropic's critical-infrastructure cyber defense program as a founding partner, alongside Accenture, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, Palo Alto Networks and 11 companies in total.
Why it matters
The program targets control systems for power, water and other infrastructure, where fixes that require reboots are hard to apply, so AI is meant to help detect and repair vulnerabilities faster.
WHO IT HITSOperators of power grids, water systems, manufacturing plants and transportation networks stand to gain faster vulnerability detection and repair, while Hitachi's security teams and partners integrate Anthropic's AI into their services.
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Anthropic launched the program on October 8 US time, bringing together 11 global IT and consulting companies including Accenture, CrowdStrike, Deloitte and Palo Alto Networks. Critical infrastructure control systems are expected to run 24/7, making it difficult to immediately apply security patches that require restarts or shutdowns. At the same time, advances in generative AI have shortened the time between when attackers find a vulnerability and when they exploit it.
Hitachi's involvement builds on a partnership with Anthropic that began in May 2026. Since then, Hitachi joined a software defense project in June and in July published trial results showing that AI cut verification work for its infrastructure software from weeks to hours. In September it began offering HMAX Cyber, a business continuity support service that integrates these insights. Through the new program, Hitachi plans to continuously feed the latest threat information and AI technology from Anthropic into its security services.
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