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To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely manage AI infrastructure.

When evaluating enterprise software adoption, a recurring pattern dictates how technology matures across industries. As Rob Thomas, SVP and CCO at IBM, recently outlined, software typically graduates from a standalone product to a platform, and then from a platform to foundational infrastructure, altering the governing rules entirely.

At the initial product stage, exerting tight corporate control often feels highly advantageous. Closed development environments iterate quickly and tightly manage the end-user experience. They capture and concentrate financial value within a single corporate entity, an approach that functions adequately during early product development cycles.

However, IBM’s analysis highlights that expectations change entirely when a technology solidifies into a foundational layer. Once other institutional frameworks, external markets, and broad operational systems rely on the software, the prevailing standards adapt to a new reality. At infrastructure scale, embracing openness ceases to be an ideological stance and becomes a highly practical necessity.

AI is currently crossing this threshold within the enterprise architecture stack. Models are increasingly embedded directly into the ways organisations secure their networks, author source code, execute automated decisions, and generate commercial value. AI functions less as an experimental utility and more as core operational infrastructure.

The recent limited preview of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model brings this reality into sharper focus for enterprise executives managing risk. Anthropic reports that this specific model can discover and exploit software vulnerabilities at a level matching few human experts.

In response to this power, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, a gated initiative designed to place these advanced capabilities directly into the hands of network defenders first. From IBM’s perspective, this development forces technology officers to confront immediate structural vulnerabilities. If autonomous models possess the capability to write exploits and shape the overall security environment, Thomas notes that concentrating the understanding of these systems within a small number of technology vendors invites severe operational exposure.

With models achieving infrastructure status, IBM argues the primary issue is no longer exclusively what these machine learning applications can execute. The priority becomes how these systems are constructed, governed, inspected, and actively improved over extended periods.

As underlying frameworks grow in complexity and corporate importance, maintaining closed development pipelines becomes exceedingly difficult to defend. No single vendor can successfully anticipate every operational requirement, adversarial attack vector, or system failure mode.

Implementing opaque AI structures introduces heavy friction across existing network architecture. Connecting closed proprietary models with established enterprise vector databases or highly sensitive internal data lakes frequently creates massive troubleshooting bottlenecks. When anomalous outputs occur or hallucination rates spike, teams lack the internal visibility required to diagnose whether the error originated in the retrieval-augmented generation pipeline or the base model weights.

Integrating legacy on-premises architecture with highly gated cloud models also introduces severe latency into daily operations. When enterprise data governance protocols strictly prohibit sending sensitive customer information to external servers, technology teams are left attempting to strip and anonymise datasets before processing. This constant data sanitisation creates enormous operational drag. 

Furthermore, the spiralling compute costs associated with continuous API calls to locked models erode the exact profit margins these autonomous systems are supposed to enhance. The opacity prevents network engineers from accurately sizing hardware deployments, forcing companies into expensive over-provisioning agreements to maintain baseline functionality.

Why open-source AI is essential for operational resilience

Restricting access to powerful applications is an understandable human instinct that closely resembles caution. Yet, as Thomas points out, at massive infrastructure scale, security typically improves through rigorous external scrutiny rather than through strict concealment.

This represents the enduring lesson of open-source software development. Open-source code does not eliminate enterprise risk. Instead, IBM maintains it actively changes how organisations manage that risk. An open foundation allows a wider base of researchers, corporate developers, and security defenders to examine the architecture, surface underlying weaknesses, test foundational assumptions, and harden the software under real-world conditions.

Within cybersecurity operations, broad visibility is rarely the enemy of operational resilience. In fact, visibility frequently serves as a strict prerequisite for achieving that resilience. Technologies deemed highly important tend to remain safer when larger populations can challenge them, inspect their logic, and contribute to their continuous improvement.

Thomas addresses one of the oldest misconceptions regarding open-source technology: the belief that it inevitably commoditises corporate innovation. In practical application, open infrastructure typically pushes market competition higher up the technology stack. Open systems transfer financial value rather than destroying it.

As common digital foundations mature, the commercial value relocates toward complex implementation, system orchestration, continuous reliability, trust mechanics, and specific domain expertise. IBM’s position asserts that the long-term commercial winners are not those who own the base technological layer, but rather the organisations that understand how to apply it most effectively.

We have witnessed this identical pattern play out across previous generations of enterprise tooling, cloud infrastructure, and operating systems. Open foundations historically expanded developer participation, accelerated iterative improvement, and birthed entirely new, larger markets built on top of those base layers. Enterprise leaders increasingly view open-source as highly important for infrastructure modernisation and emerging AI capabilities. IBM predicts that AI is highly likely to follow this exact historical trajectory.

Looking across the broader vendor ecosystem, leading hyperscalers are adjusting their business postures to accommodate this reality. Rather than engaging in a pure arms race to build the largest proprietary black boxes, highly profitable integrators are focusing heavily on orchestration tooling that allows enterprises to swap out underlying open-source models based on specific workload demands. Highlighting its ongoing leadership in this space, IBM is a key sponsor of this year’s AI & Big Data Expo North America, where these evolving strategies for open enterprise infrastructure will be a primary focus.

This approach completely sidesteps restrictive vendor lock-in and allows companies to route less demanding internal queries to smaller and highly efficient open models, preserving expensive compute resources for complex customer-facing autonomous logic. By decoupling the application layer from the specific foundation model, technology officers can maintain operational agility and protect their bottom line.

The future of enterprise AI demands transparent governance

Another pragmatic reason for embracing open models revolves around product development influence. IBM emphasises that narrow access to underlying code naturally leads to narrow operational perspectives. In contrast, who gets to participate directly shapes what applications are eventually built. 

Providing broad access enables governments, diverse institutions, startups, and varied researchers to actively influence how the technology evolves and where it is commercially applied. This inclusive approach drives functional innovation while simultaneously building structural adaptability and necessary public legitimacy.

As Thomas argues, once autonomous AI assumes the role of core enterprise infrastructure, relying on opacity can no longer serve as the organising principle for system safety. The most reliable blueprint for secure software has paired open foundations with broad external scrutiny, active code maintenance, and serious internal governance.

As AI permanently enters its infrastructure phase, IBM contends that identical logic increasingly applies directly to the foundation models themselves. The stronger the corporate reliance on a technology, the stronger the corresponding case for demanding openness.

If these autonomous workflows are truly becoming foundational to global commerce, then transparency ceases to be a subject of casual debate. According to IBM, it is an absolute, non-negotiable design requirement for any modern enterprise architecture.

See also: Why companies like Apple are building AI agents with limits

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kusari have announced a new collaboration aimed at strengthening software supply chain security across cloud-native projects, providing free access to Kusari's AI-powered security tooling for CNCF-hosted projects.

By Craig Risi

Anthropic’s most capable AI model has already found thousands of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. The company’s response was not to release it, but to quietly hand it to the organisations responsible for keeping the internet running.

That model is Claude Mythos Preview, and the initiative is called Project Glasswing.

The launch partners include Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks. 

Beyond that core group, Anthropic has extended access to over 40 additional organisations that build or maintain critical software infrastructure. Anthropic is committing up to US$100 million in usage credits for Mythos Preview across the effort, along with US$4 million in direct donations to open-source security organisations. 

A model that outgrew its own benchmarks

Mythos Preview was not specifically trained for cybersecurity work. Anthropic said the capabilities “emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy”, and that the same improvements making the model better at patching vulnerabilities also make it better at exploiting them. 

That last part matters. Mythos Preview has improved to the extent that it mostly saturates existing security benchmarks, forcing Anthropic to shift its focus to novel real-world tasks–specifically, zero-day vulnerabilities. These flaws were previously unknown to the software’s developers. 

Among the findings: a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD, an operating system known for its strong security posture. In another case, the model fully autonomously identified and exploited a 17-year-old remote code execution vulnerability in FreeBSD–CVE-2026-4747–that allows an unauthenticated user anywhere on the internet to obtain complete control of a server running NFS. No human was involved in the discovery or exploitation after the initial prompt to find the bug. 

Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic’s research team described the model’s ability to chain together vulnerabilities: “This model can create exploits out of three, four, or sometimes five vulnerabilities that in sequence give you some kind of very sophisticated end outcome. I’ve found more bugs in the last couple of weeks than I found in the rest of my life combined.” 

Why is it not being released?

“We do not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available due to its cybersecurity capabilities,” Newton Cheng, Frontier Red Team Cyber Lead at Anthropic, said. “Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely. The fallout–for economies, public safety, and national security–could be severe.” 

This is not hypothetical. Anthropic had previously disclosed what it described as the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed by AI–a Chinese state-sponsored group that used AI agents to autonomously infiltrate roughly 30 global targets, with AI handling the majority of tactical operations independently. 

The company has also privately briefed senior US government officials on Mythos Preview’s full capabilities. The intelligence community is now actively weighing how the model could reshape both offensive and defensive hacking operations. 

The open-source problem

One dimension of Project Glasswing that goes beyond the headline coalition: open-source software. Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, put it plainly: “In the past, security expertise has been a luxury reserved for organisations with large security teams. Open-source maintainers, whose software underpins much of the world’s critical infrastructure, have historically been left to figure out security on their own.”

Anthropic has donated US$2.5 million to Alpha-Omega and OpenSSF through the Linux Foundation, and US$1.5 million to the Apache Software Foundation–giving maintainers of critical open-source codebases access to AI cybersecurity vulnerability scanning at a scale that was previously out of reach.

What comes next

Anthropic says its eventual goal is to deploy Mythos-class models at scale, but only when new safeguards are in place. The company plans to launch new safeguards with an upcoming Claude Opus model first, allowing it to refine them with a model that does not pose the same level of risk as Mythos Preview. 

The competitive picture is already shifting around it. When OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex in February, the company called it the first model it had classified as high-capability for cybersecurity tasks under its Preparedness Framework. Anthropic’s move with Glasswing signals that the frontier labs see controlled deployment–not open release–as the emerging standard for models at this capability level.

Whether that standard holds as these capabilities spread further is, at this point, an open question that no single initiative can answer.

See Also: Anthropic’s refusal to arm AI is exactly why the UK wants it

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A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents. The release tackles a growing anxiety: autonomous language models are now executing code and hitting corporate networks way faster than traditional policy controls can keep up.

AI integration used to mean conversational interfaces and advisory copilots. Those systems had read-only access to specific datasets, keeping humans strictly in the execution loop. Organisations are currently deploying agentic frameworks that take independent action, wiring these models directly into internal application programming interfaces, cloud storage repositories, and continuous integration pipelines.

When an autonomous agent can read an email, decide to write a script, and push that script to a server, stricter governance is vital. Static code analysis and pre-deployment vulnerability scanning just can’t handle the non-deterministic nature of large language models. One prompt injection attack (or even a basic hallucination) could send an agent to overwrite a database or pull out customer records.

Microsoft’s new toolkit looks at runtime security instead, providing a way to monitor, evaluate, and block actions at the moment the model tries to execute them. It beats relying on prior training or static parameter checks.

Intercepting the tool-calling layer in real time

Looking at the mechanics of agentic tool calling shows how this works. When an enterprise AI agent has to step outside its core neural network to do something like query an inventory system, it generates a command to hit an external tool.

Microsoft’s framework drops a policy enforcement engine right between the language model and the broader corporate network. Every time the agent tries to trigger an outside function, the toolkit grabs the request and checks the intended action against a central set of governance rules. If the action breaks policy (e.g. an agent authorised only to read inventory data tries to fire off a purchase order) the toolkit blocks the API call and logs the event so a human can review it.

Security teams get a verifiable, auditable trail of every single autonomous decision. Developers also win here; they can build complex multi-agent systems without having to hardcode security protocols into every individual model prompt. Security policies get decoupled from the core application logic entirely and are managed at the infrastructure level.

Most legacy systems were never built to talk to non-deterministic software. An old mainframe database or a customised enterprise resource planning suite doesn’t have native defenses against a machine learning model shooting over malformed requests. Microsoft’s toolkit steps in as a protective translation layer. Even if an underlying language model gets compromised by external inputs; the system’s perimeter holds.

Security leaders might wonder why Microsoft decided to release this runtime toolkit under an open-source license. It comes down to how modern software supply chains actually work.

Developers are currently rushing to build autonomous workflows using a massive mix of open-source libraries, frameworks, and third-party models. If Microsoft locked this runtime security feature to its proprietary platforms, development teams would probably just bypass it for faster, unvetted workarounds to hit their deadlines.

Pushing the toolkit out openly means security and governance controls can fit into any technology stack. It doesn’t matter if an organisation runs local open-weight models, leans on competitors like Anthropic, or deploys hybrid architectures.

Setting up an open standard for AI agent security also lets the wider cybersecurity community chip in. Security vendors can stack commercial dashboards and incident response integrations on top of this open foundation, which speeds up the maturity of the whole ecosystem. For businesses, they avoid vendor lock-in but still get a universally scrutinised security baseline.

The next phase of enterprise AI governance

Enterprise governance doesn’t just stop at security; it hits financial and operational oversight too. Autonomous agents run in a continuous loop of reasoning and execution, burning API tokens at every step. Startups and enterprises are already seeing token costs explode when they deploy agentic systems.

Without runtime governance, an agent tasked with looking up a market trend might decide to hit an expensive proprietary database thousands of times before it finishes. Left alone, a badly configured agent caught in a recursive loop can rack up massive cloud computing bills in a few hours.

The runtime toolkit gives teams a way to slap hard limits on token consumption and API call frequency. By setting boundaries on exactly how many actions an agent can take within a specific timeframe, forecasting computing costs gets much easier. It also stops runaway processes from eating up system resources.

A runtime governance layer hands over the quantitative metrics and control mechanisms needed to meet compliance mandates. The days of just trusting model providers to filter out bad outputs are ending. System safety now falls on the infrastructure that actually executes the models’ decisions

Getting a mature governance program off the ground is going to demand tight collaboration between development operations, legal, and security teams. Language models are only scaling up in capability, and the organisations putting strict runtime controls in place today are the only ones who will be equipped to handle the autonomous workflows of tomorrow.

See also: As AI agents take on more tasks, governance becomes a priority

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