OpenAI’s Greg Brockman announced two new cyber products on X on 12 November. Brockman said both make the cyber capabilities of frontier models easier to put to work and help defend companies in new ways.

Tibo Sottiaux, a member of OpenAI’s Codex team, described the products as tools the company is developing for automated patching and red teaming. In red teaming, a tester tries to break into a system as an attacker would, to find its weaknesses.

OpenAI describes Daybreak Defense Factory in more detail on its website. Companies bring findings from their existing security tools and from Daybreak Red Team into the service. AI agents, programs that use a model to act, investigate each finding, trace the vulnerability through the code and develop a patch.

The patches are proposals. Developers review and test them before they are merged into the code, the page says.

Developers can also work on a patch with OpenAI’s Codex: adding context, examining the evidence behind a finding and tuning the patch. They can test changes while the agents keep working in the background.

Defense Factory can also scan new commits, the changes saved to the code, or check the code on a schedule. Developers can hand the investigation of new findings to the agents.

Little was said about Daybreak Red Team beyond its name. Sottiaux’s mention of automated red teaming apparently refers to it.

The Defense Factory page invites users to connect repositories and security findings to the service. It does not give a price or say who can already use the service. A recording of the launch event is available online, Sottiaux said.