Today, Palo Alto Networks announced it will give defenders access to OpenAI’s leading cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-5.6 Daybreak, to help businesses find, test, and validate attack paths at machine speed. Until now, GPT-5.6 Daybreak has not been available for commercial use.
Frontier AI in cybersecurity has largely been seen as a threat defenders were racing against. Now, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 is expanding its Frontier AI Defense service to bring advanced AI cyber models inside customer environments to actively simulate attacks and uncover hidden, previously unknown attack paths and create custom remediation plans before AI-enabled threat actors can exploit them.
What’s New
Through our partnership with OpenAI, we’re expanding our Frontier AI Exposure Analysis capabilities to offer security teams:
- Leading cyber models: Apply the latest advanced cyber models to improve exposure discovery, testing and validation.
- Multi-model harness: Use the right model for the right task to improve efficacy, expand coverage and optimize cost.
- Exposure discovery: Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, leaked credentials, unmanaged attack surface and other posture gaps across applications and network assets.
- Advanced adversary simulation: Actively test exploitability and validate end-to-end attack paths to understand how an attacker could compromise the environment.
- Custom remediation plan: Prioritize the fixes that break the most important attack paths and feed those findings into existing IT, development and security workflows.
Focusing on known vulnerabilities and exploits doesn’t work anymore. Our Frontier AI Defense data found that 36% of exposures lacked known CVEs. Security teams must now match AI-powered attacks with machine-speed defense.
There’s also the blog post from Sam Rubin, SVP of Unit 42, with more details.
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Palo Alto Puts OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders
Today, Palo Alto Networks announced it will give defenders access to OpenAI’s leading cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-5.6 Daybreak, to help businesses find, test, and validate attack paths at machine speed. Until now, GPT-5.6 Daybreak has not been available for commercial use.
Frontier AI in cybersecurity has largely been seen as a threat defenders were racing against. Now, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 is expanding its Frontier AI Defense service to bring advanced AI cyber models inside customer environments to actively simulate attacks and uncover hidden, previously unknown attack paths and create custom remediation plans before AI-enabled threat actors can exploit them.
What’s New
Through our partnership with OpenAI, we’re expanding our Frontier AI Exposure Analysis capabilities to offer security teams:
Focusing on known vulnerabilities and exploits doesn’t work anymore. Our Frontier AI Defense data found that 36% of exposures lacked known CVEs. Security teams must now match AI-powered attacks with machine-speed defense.
There’s also the blog post from Sam Rubin, SVP of Unit 42, with more details.
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