Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission

Anthropic has announced an initiative called the Anthropic Cyber Mission. The announcement appears on the company's website under the title "Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission." The announcement was published by Anthropic on anthropic.com. According to the announcement, the initiative launches OSS Scanner, a service that will offer open-source projects regular security scans. Those scans are to be carried out by the company's strongest models, and the announcement describes them as free.

The announcement states that the mission will also bring frontier models, on-site engineers and threat research to defenders, with the stated purpose of protecting operational technology. It names those three resources — frontier models, on-site engineers and threat research — as the means by which that support will be delivered. The term "defenders" is used in the announcement without further definition. The announcement does not state how many engineers will be involved, how many open-source projects will be scanned, or when either part of the work will begin.

The initiative is presented as a mission rather than a product, and it sets out two groups of recipients. Open-source projects are offered the scanning service, named OSS Scanner, which the announcement says will use the company's strongest models at no charge. Defenders protecting operational technology are offered frontier models, on-site engineers and threat research. Operational technology is named in the announcement as the area those defenders work in, and the announcement does not list sectors, organisations or countries.