IBM partners with OpenAI to bring AI security tools to enterprise clients

IBM partnered with OpenAI to launch a security solution that uses advanced AI models to detect code vulnerabilities and help companies fix them before they become problems.

The two companies are now working together through OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program. IBM’s consulting infrastructure, added to OpenAI’s frontier AI models, helps business clients uncover security issues faster.

According to an IBM news release, the service provides AI analysis that extends beyond typical scanning solutions for organizations with huge codebases.

IBM’s new security tool scans code for flaws

The new offering runs inside client environments with read-only access to code repositories. It analyzes application code, flags areas with potential flaws, and identifies exploitable paths. Organizations can start with targeted evaluations of individual applications and scale up to continuous monitoring as their code evolves.

IBM Consulting Advantage, the company’s AI platform for delivering consulting engagements, powers the security service.

“Attackers are already using AI to probe, exploit, and scale threats at machine speed. Defenders need the same advantage, with the security and control enterprises require,” said Mark Hughes, IBM Consulting’s global managing partner for cybersecurity services.

“…we are collaborating with AI pioneers like IBM to use frontier models to accelerate defensive security workflows and support enterprises, governments, and other organizations as they identify risks,” said Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s chief information security officer, in the official press release.

IBM commits $5 billion to secure open source software

The application security service builds on Project Lightwell, an initiative IBM launched last month to secure open source software used across enterprise supply chains. IBM and Red Hat have committed $5 billion to fund the project, which deploys engineers and AI tools to patch, validate, and manage open source code.

OpenAI’s models will work alongside other AI systems within Project Lightwell for code review and remediation tasks. IBM has described the initiative as an enterprise security clearinghouse staffed by a global engineering team.

IBM shares jumped 4.6% in after-hours trading, according to Google Finance. The company holds a market capitalization of about $235.7 billion.

IBM has reported revenue growth of close to 10%, and seven analysts have recently raised their earnings estimates for the upcoming period, according to Investing.com.

The US’s Commerce Department is separately expected to allocate $1 billion to IBM as part of a $2 billion quantum computing grant program, Cryptopolitan reported in May.