CYBERSECURITY | Sophos joins OpenAI cyber partner program
According to Sophos, the integration will initially focus on defensive operations rather than giving customers direct access to OpenAI’s frontier models.
Source: Sophos
Cybersecurity company Sophos has joined OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to integrate frontier artificial intelligence capabilities into its security products and managed services, the company announced.
The partnership aims to strengthen cyber defense for more than 625,000 organizations worldwide by incorporating OpenAI’s latest AI capabilities into Sophos’ managed detection and response (MDR) services, security assessments, and vulnerability management workflows.
According to Sophos, the integration will initially focus on defensive operations rather than giving customers direct access to OpenAI’s frontier models. Human analysts will remain involved in reviewing AI-assisted workflows as the company rolls out the technology in phases.
“Frontier AI only protects customers at scale when you have the architecture to deploy it,” said John Peterson, chief technology officer at Sophos. “Sophos runs the world’s largest agentic SOC, built on a broad portfolio of products engineered to stop AI-enabled attacks. Joining the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program lets us deliver frontier cyber-model capability through those products and services, so customers get that protection without the risk of direct model access.”
The company said early applications of the technology include accelerating MDR threat investigations, enhancing security assessments through Sophos Advisory Services, and improving the identification and remediation of security exposures.
Sophos also said it is working with OpenAI to develop safety standards, abuse prevention measures, and monitoring controls for AI-powered cybersecurity operations.
The company said its endpoint security platform is designed to block AI-generated zero-day attacks by detecting attack techniques instead of relying solely on known vulnerabilities. Sophos added that its MDR platform currently resolves 52% of security cases end-to-end using AI while maintaining human oversight, with an average response time of 89 seconds.
The new capabilities will be available to enterprise, mid-market, and commercial organizations through Sophos’ managed service provider and channel partner network.
Sophos said the collaboration supports the principles of OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, which promotes building AI-powered security capabilities directly into software while emphasizing secure-by-design development practices.
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