Palo Alto Networks Delivers Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to Customers with Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense
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New service enables enterprises to continuously find and fix exposures before attackers weaponize them SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW ) today announced Unit 42 ® Continuous Frontier AI Defense , an agentic offensive security service designed for enterprises that want to leverage gated capability models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT, to perpetually find, validate, and remediate enterprise exposures before attackers can weaponize them. Threat actors today are deploying AI to find and exploit vulnerabilities, compressing breach cycles by almost 97% in some cases, from weeks to hours. To help defenders answer the critical question of whether they are prepared for this step-change in cybersecurity, Unit 42 is now offering continuous offensive testing to identify and validate vulnerabilities, pinpoint exposures and attack paths, and then accelerate remediation. This builds on Unit 42's Frontier AI Defense, which launched in April and introduced a point-in-time exposure analysis and a subsequent security blueprint that benchmarks current capabilities to help organizations modernize their cybersecurity systems. In August, Unit 42 announced it would expand its Frontier AI Exposure Analysis with OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber and Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5, giving organizations access to its advanced cyber...
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