IBM announced that it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to bring advanced frontier AI capabilities into security operations.
The partnership is designed to help enterprises counter machine-speed threats by deploying advanced AI capabilities defensively inside enterprise workflows.
As part of the effort, IBM launched a new application security service that uses the cyber capabilities of OpenAI’s models to help organizations identify and validate software vulnerabilities with greater speed and precision.
The service builds on IBM’s recently announced Project Lightwell, which combines an enterprise security clearinghouse with a global force of engineers to patch, validate, and manage open-source code across the software supply chain.
IBM said the new application security service goes beyond traditional code scanning by using AI-driven analysis to assess application code and prioritize areas with the highest potential to contain flaws and exploitable paths.
The service is powered by IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM’s AI platform for delivering consulting services to clients. It connects client application environments to advanced AI in a controlled, secured, and governed way.
The service operates within a client’s environment with read-only access to code repositories and bounded execution, enabling large-scale exposure analysis while maintaining enterprise controls.
IBM said clients can begin with focused evaluations of key applications and expand to continuous monitoring to reassess risk over time as code changes and new threats emerge.
Project Lightwell is supported by a $5 billion commitment from IBM and Red Hat and will use OpenAI’s cyber capabilities alongside other frontier AI models to support code review and remediation.
IBM said the new application security service is available now, with additional integrations planned as part of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program.
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“Attackers are already using AI to probe, exploit, and scale threats at machine speed. Defenders need the same advantage, with the security and control enterprises require. The OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program expands our access to a broader set of advanced AI capabilities, which we deploy within our clients’ environments to help surface the most relevant risks faster and help them act with confidence.”
Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services at IBM Consulting
“Security is central to realizing the benefits of advanced AI. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, we are collaborating with AI pioneers like IBM to use frontier models to accelerate defensive security workflows and support enterprises, governments, and other organizations as they identify risks, strengthen resilience, improve security, and ultimately deploy AI with the trust, controls, and compliance their environments require.”
Dane Stuckey, Chief Information Security Officer at OpenAI
