Cato Networks said it is joining OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, expanding an existing partnership with OpenAI as the cybersecurity company looks to bring advanced AI tools into enterprise defense systems.
The company said the collaboration will focus on using OpenAI’s cyber capabilities in practical defensive workflows, including vulnerability discovery, prioritization and mitigation. Cato previously joined OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program, which gives vetted security teams access to cyber-focused AI tools for defensive use. OpenAI describes Daybreak as a cybersecurity initiative built around authorization, human judgment, monitoring, safeguards and collaboration with the security community.
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Through Daybreak, Cato said it will work with OpenAI to move beyond internal testing and integrate AI capabilities into real-world security products and services used by enterprises. The companies also plan to collaborate on safety and abuse-prevention standards, including controls intended to monitor and prevent unauthorized activity.
Cato, founded by Israeli cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer, provides an SASE platform that combines networking, security, access and AI security in a single cloud-based system. The company says its platform allows enterprises to monitor activity across users, devices, applications, data, cloud resources and AI interactions, correlate that activity and enforce policy through its global cloud.
“Security teams are under pressure to respond at machine speed, but speed alone is not enough,” Kramer, Cato’s co-founder and CEO, said. “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 said the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program would allow Cato to work with OpenAI on bringing advanced AI capabilities into its platform “to power the next generation of agentic defense and help security teams close the gap between new threats and meaningful protection.”
Cato said it recently reduced its time to protect against newly disclosed vulnerabilities to 45 minutes using what it described as full agentic CVE mitigation. The company said the milestone showed how cloud-native architecture and AI tools could accelerate vulnerability analysis, protection generation, validation and global deployment when paired with governance and human oversight.
The announcement comes as AI companies and cybersecurity firms increasingly focus on tools that can help defenders identify, analyze and patch vulnerabilities faster. OpenAI’s Daybreak program is part of that broader push to use AI for defensive cyber work, including vulnerability detection and remediation.