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Anthropic Launches 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access

Anthropic Launches 3-Tier Cyber Verification Program for AI Access

FIRST LOOK ATLAS OWASP LOW Limited impact · Standard review ▲ 7.2 SecurityWeek

Anthropic has unified its Cyber Verification Program (CVP) and Project Glasswing into a single three-tier access framework that gates its most capable AI models based on verified defender credentials. This closes a meaningful gap by ensuring that high-capability AI is preferentially available to vetted security practitioners rather than being uniformly accessible, reducing the risk of misuse while accelerating legitimate defensive research. The residual question is how rigorous and scalable the verification process will be in practice, and whether the tiering logic aligns with the operational tempo of real security teams.

Anthropic and OpenAI Open Vetted Cyber Programs for Offensive Researchers

Anthropic and OpenAI Open Vetted Cyber Programs for Offensive Researchers

FIRST LOOK ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 7.2 TechCrunch AI

Anthropic and OpenAI have introduced structured vetting programs — Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program and OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber — that grant approved offensive security researchers access to AI models with reduced cybersecurity guardrails. These programs create a two-tier access model where the boundary between legitimate researcher and malicious actor becomes a policy decision made by private companies, introducing new social-engineering and access-abuse vectors. Defenders must now account for the possibility that guardrail-reduced model access can be obtained through credential abuse, insider compromise, or vetting-process manipulation.

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