OpenAI is launching the Cybersecurity Grant Program—a $1M initiative to boost and quantify AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities and to foster high-level AI and cybersecurity discourse.
Donor Name: OpenAI
Country: Global
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: Ongoing
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
The goal is to work with defenders across the globe to change the power dynamics of cybersecurity through the application of AI and the coordination of like-minded individuals working for the collective safety.
The program seeks to:
- Empower defenders: They would like to ensure that cutting-edge AI capabilities benefit defenders first and most.
- Measure capabilities: They are working to develop methods for quantifying the cybersecurity capabilities of AI models, in order to better understand and improve their effectiveness.
- Elevate discourse: They are dedicated to fostering rigorous discussions at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity, encouraging a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in this domain.
Funding Information
They will grant in increments of $10,000 USD from a fund of $1M USD, in the form of API credits, direct funding and/or equivalents.
Project Ideas
- Below are some general project ideas that the team has put forward:
- Collect and label data from cyber defenders to train defensive cybersecurity agents
- Detect and mitigate social engineering tactics
- Automate incident triage
- Identify security issues in source code
- Assist network or device forensics
- Automatically patch vulnerabilities
- Optimize patch management processes to improve prioritization, scheduling, and deployment of security updates
- Develop or improve confidential compute on GPUs
- Create honeypots and deception technology to misdirect or trap attackers
- Assist reverse engineers in creating signatures and behavior based detections of malware
- Analyze an organization’s security controls and compare to compliance regimes
- Assist developers to create secure by design and secure by default software
- Assist end users to adopt security best practices
- Aid security engineers and developers to create robust threat models
- Produce threat intelligence with salient and relevant information for defenders tailored to their organization
- Help developers port code to memory safe languages.
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