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Anthropic Expands Cyber Verification Program With 3-Tier Claude Access for Vetted Defenders

Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program is getting a serious upgrade. On Tuesday, the company announced it’s folding two of its security-access initiatives (the original Cyber Verification Program and Project Glasswing) into one expanded three-tier offering that gives vetted defenders access to Claude’s most powerful models with the usual cyber guardrails dialed down or removed entirely. Here’s the catch: the exact same AI capability that finds a zero-day in your codebase could find one in someone else’s. Anthropic knows it. That’s why every tier of the new CVP ships with its own verification requirements, and the top tier is vetted jointly with the U.S. government. ...

October 8, 2026 · 6 min · 1066 words ·