OpenAI announced Defense Factory, a new continuous defense concept.

"Defender's window" is the gap between the cyber capabilities of open-weight models and the current security level.

Without continuous defense practices that rely on frontier models, this gap will close, enabling malicious actors to freely abuse vulnerable systems.

> "Agents can now conduct long-running cyber operations by abusing increasingly available open-weight models. In response, at OpenAI we’re building a Defense Factory. An automated defense operation to find, validate, and fix vulnerabilities continuously."

> "Defenders have two structural advantages. They can give agents direct access to their code and use frontier models to get a head start over attackers abusing broadly available open-weight models."

What does it mean?

“Everything that makes it successful is exactly what makes it dangerous.”

Internet won't be safe anymore 🤖