IBM has announced its participation in the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, integrating advanced frontier AI capabilities into its security operations to help enterprises respond to machine-speed threats. Building on the recently introduced Project Lightwell, IBM has also launched a new application security service that leverages cyber capabilities of OpenAI’s models to enable enterprises with faster and more precise identification and validation of software vulnerabilities.
As part of this collaboration, IBM is working with OpenAI to deploy advanced AI capabilities within enterprise workflows, helping organizations better understand their risk exposure and take proactive steps to reduce it.
The new application security service can go beyond traditional code scanning to identify and validate vulnerabilities using OpenAI cyber capabilities. AI-driven analysis assesses application code, and prioritizes areas with highest potential to contain flaws and exploitable paths. The security harness, powered by IBM Consulting Advantage – IBM’s AI platform for delivering consulting services to clients – connects client application environments to advanced AI in a controlled, secured and governed way. Operating within the client’s environment, with read-only access to code repositories and bounded execution, it enables large-scale exposure analysis.
Delivered as a managed, enterprise-ready service, 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.
Participation in the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program reflects IBM’s ongoing role in shaping how frontier AI is deployed across enterprise workflows. Together with OpenAI and other partners, IBM is helping define standards for safeguards including for controlled analysis to help enterprises strengthen resilience.
Project Lightwell combines an enterprise security clearinghouse with a global force of engineers to patch, validate, and manage open source code across the software supply chain. Supported by a $5 billion commitment from IBM and Red Hat, the initiative will use OpenAI’s cyber capabilities alongside other frontier AI models to help with code review and remediation.
“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,” said Mark Hughes, Global Managing Partner, Cybersecurity Services, IBM Consulting. “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.”
“Security is central to realizing the benefits of advanced AI,” said Dane Stuckey, Chief Information Security Officer at OpenAI. “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.”
The new application security service is available with further integrations planned as part of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program.
