Anthropic launches critical infrastructure program and free OSS Scanner for open source
Anthropic brings Claude to critical infrastructure security — and gives open-source projects free vulnerability scanning.
Why it matters
Anthropic is operationalizing its frontier models for defensive security at scale: onsite engineers embedded in power and water utilities, plus a free automated scanner for OSS projects. This signals a concrete enterprise security use case and positions Claude as infrastructure-grade tooling.
The key facts
5 to knowAnthropic launches Critical Infrastructure Program pairing frontier models with onsite engineers
Program targets power grids, water systems, and other critical infrastructure security
OSS Scanner offers free periodic vulnerability scans to open-source projects using Anthropic's strongest models
Both initiatives fall under new Anthropic Cyber effort
Deployment model: embedded engineers + model access, not SaaS-only
The story so far
Earlier coverage of this storyline
- Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projectsThe Verge AI
- This story
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Publisher excerpt: Anthropic PBC today launched a program that brings its frontier models and onsite engineers to the security companies protecting power grids, water systems and other critical infrastructure. OSS Scanner, launched with it, offers open-source projects free periodic vulnerability scans from the…