Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all

Source: OpenAI Blog

Overview

OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber is built on a simple premise: advanced cyber capabilities should reach defenders broadly, but access must scale with trust, validation, and safeguards. The approach leverages the breadth of defenders involved—major enterprises, security vendors, researchers, maintainers, public institutions, nonprofits, and smaller teams with limited security resources.

Program Details

Not every organization has a 24×7 security team able to respond to incidents disclosed on a Friday night — see the example on GitHub. To ensure all software developers can benefit from frontier‑model cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI has committed $10 million in API credits through its Cybersecurity Grant Program.

The program aims to:

• Protect the digital infrastructure we all rely on.
• Learn from real‑world use and improve safety systems.
• Make advanced defensive capabilities more useful across the ecosystem.
• Build trust, verification, and accountability for tools used by defenders.

Participants

Companies and organizations that have already signed up include:

• Bank of America
• BlackRock
• BNY
• Citi
• Cisco
• CrowdStrike
• Goldman Sachs
• iVerify
• JPMorgan Chase
• Morgan Stanley
• NVIDIA
• Oracle
• SpecterOps
• Zscaler

These firms are renowned for enterprise security leadership in their respective industries.

Government Collaboration

OpenAI has provided access to GPT‑5.4‑Cyber to:

• The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)
• The UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI)

Both organizations will conduct evaluations focused on the model’s cyber capabilities and safeguards.

Future Plans

Trusted Access for Cyber will continue expanding as OpenAI learns, with safeguards that rise alongside capability and pathways that help legitimate defenders move faster. Participants are encouraged to:

• Push the frontier of defensive research.
• Share discoveries.
• Turn new insights into stronger protection for everyone.

Cyber defense is a shared challenge, and this program reflects the breadth of people and organizations working on it every day.