OpenAI Launches Trusted Access for Cyber to Expand AI-Driven Defense While Managing Risk

OpenAI announced 'Trusted Access for Cyber,' a pilot program to give verified security professionals controlled access to frontier models like GPT-5.3-Codex to accelerate defensive tasks, paired with a $10 million API-credit Cybersecurity Grant Program; the initiative emphasizes identity verification, usage policies, classifier-based monitoring, and restrictions intended to enable legitimate vulnerability research while limiting misuse.