OpenAI Extends Daybreak Cyber Defense Access to Ukraine's Government
OpenAI announced it is extending access to its Daybreak cyber defense program to the Government of Ukraine, supporting civilian infrastructure defense during the UN General Assembly.
Details
- What it provides: help identifying vulnerabilities, investigating suspicious activity, and validating and testing fixes for civilian systems under attack
- Target sectors: hospital systems, the energy sector, and telecommunications — critical infrastructure that has been directly targeted
- Who it supports: Ukraine’s national cyber incident response team, CERT-UA, which handled nearly 6,000 cyber incidents in 2025, alongside public and private entities protecting essential services
- Quotes: Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s Head of National Security Policy, said “Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now”; George Osborne, Head of OpenAI for Countries, said “Protecting civilian infrastructure means defending it against both physical and digital attacks”
- Precedent: OpenAI has previously extended similar cyber model access to France, Germany, Poland, and other European countries — Poland’s CERT Polska used the tools to discover six router software vulnerabilities, all since patched by vendors
What happened next
The Ukraine extension continues OpenAI’s pattern of offering Daybreak access to governments facing active cyber threats to critical infrastructure, following its earlier $1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders commitment and its subsidized-access agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration.