Defenders call out timing of OpenAI defense pledge, Astra release | TechTarget
OpenAI has pledged $1 billion to support frontline defenders just days after calling for a collective surge in cyberdefense. Yet that pledge arrived on the same day it shipped Astra -- the company's first model to meet its "critical" cybersecurity threshold, meaning the model can autonomously find and exploit vulnerabilities in well-protected environments.
While industry experts are praising OpenAI for putting its money where its mouth is, they are also calling the company out for what they see as a critical imbalance between offensive and defensive AI investments.
"Offense is advancing at frontier speed, and defense gets a subsidy," said Neil "Grifter" Wyler, senior network operations lead at Black Hat and vice president of defensive services at Coalfire. "Look, I'm not trying to be difficult here. I appreciate the effort that's being made. More defenders will get access to [frontier] models, and that's great. But they're still handing people more...
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