OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber to government cyber defenders
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OpenAI expanded its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to federal, state, and local governments, broadening a defender-access system for cyber response and critical-infrastructure support. The move ties TAC to GPT5.4-Cyber and extends access into missions such as public health, emergency management, and benefits delivery. It could make authenticated AI assistance more available to public-sector defenders while narrowing access to vetted users.
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04.05.2026 11:00 2 articles · 23d ago
OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber to government cyber defenders
Industry Or Public Sector UpdateOpenAI’s Global Affairs team published Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age on April 30, 2026 and expanded Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) to cyber defenders at the federal, state, and local government levels. The roadmap links the program to GPT5.4-Cyber, adds authentication-based tiers for users willing to work with OpenAI to authenticate themselves as cybersecurity defenders, and frames the access expansion around missions including national security, threat response, public health systems, emergency management, benefits delivery, and local critical infrastructure, with the US and its allies named in the introduction.
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- OpenAI To Extend Cyber Program to Government Agencies — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 04.05.2026 11:00
- OpenAI To Extend Cyber Program to Government Agencies — www.infosecurity-magazine.com — 04.05.2026 11:00