Cato Networks announced it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, an initiative aimed at helping integrate OpenAI's cybersecurity-related capabilities into defensive security workflows through industry partners.

The participation builds on an existing relationship between Cato and OpenAI, including Cato's involvement in OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program, where the companies have explored applications related to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) discovery and prioritization.

According to the companies, the Daybreak program is intended to support the transition of AI capabilities from testing and research environments into security products and services used by enterprises. Cato said its work with OpenAI will focus on defensive cybersecurity use cases and on evaluating how AI technologies can be applied within enterprise security operations.

The companies also plan to collaborate on safety and abuse-prevention measures, including approaches for monitoring and helping prevent unauthorized activity.

Cato Networks provides a cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that combines networking and security functions within a single architecture. The platform is designed to provide visibility across users, devices, applications, data, cloud resources, and AI-related interactions, while enabling organizations to apply policies across distributed environments.

Earlier this year, Cato reported reducing the time required to deploy protections for newly disclosed vulnerabilities to 45 minutes using an agentic AI-based mitigation process. The company said the process combines automated vulnerability analysis, protection generation, validation, and deployment with governance controls and human oversight.

"Security teams are under pressure to respond at machine speed, but speed alone is not enough," said Shlomo Kramer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cato Networks. "AI in security will not be defined by access to models alone. It will be defined by who can connect these models to the data, controls, and architecture needed to protect customers in the real world."

Kramer continues, "The OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program gives Cato the opportunity to work with OpenAI on bringing advanced AI capabilities into the Cato platform to power the next generation of agentic defense and help security teams close the gap between new threats and meaningful protection."

Cato joins a group of organizations participating in the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, which focuses on exploring how AI technologies can be used to support cybersecurity defenders. The initiative comes as organizations across industries evaluate the role of AI in addressing the increasing speed of vulnerability discovery, threat activity, and security operations.

Source: Cato Networks

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