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April 17, 2026
Accelerating the Cyber Defense Ecosystem That Protects Us All
Trusted Access for Cyber is designed around a simple premise: advanced cyber capabilities should reach defenders broadly, but access should scale with trust, validation, and safeguards. Today we’re sharing the first organizations helping put that approach into practice, from open-source security teams and vulnerability researchers to enterprises operating some of the world’s most complex digital environments.
TL;DR
- Trusted Access for Cyber provides advanced cyber capabilities to a wide range of defenders.
- Access to these capabilities scales with trust, validation, and safeguards.
- The program partners with open-source security teams, vulnerability researchers, and complex digital environment operators.
- A $10 million Cybersecurity Grant Program offers API credits to eligible organizations.
- Initial recipients include Socket, Semgrep, Calif, and Trail of Bits.
- Companies like Bank of America, Cisco, and NVIDIA are supporting the program.
- GPT-5.4-Cyber has been provided to the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) and the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) for evaluation.
- The program aims to improve safety systems and make defensive capabilities more useful across the ecosystem.
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