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Build the future of cyber defense with OpenAI

Daybreak Cyber partner program

Bring frontier AI-powered cyber capabilities into the products and services defenders already trust—through governed integrations and partner-operated workflows.

Built with the security ecosystem

Daybreak integrates OpenAI with cybersecurity companies, global systems integrators, and specialist firms to develop practical, governed solutions for defenders.

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A partner program built for outcomes

Build at the frontier of cyber defense. Combine OpenAI’s frontier cyber capabilities with your products, expertise, and customer relationships to create the next generation of defensive solutions.

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Build at the frontier of cyber defense

Combine OpenAI’s frontier cyber capabilities with your products, expertise, and customer relationships to create the next generation of defensive solutions.

Collaborate alongside OpenAI

Work with OpenAI technical teams to develop and validate new defensive workflows and help shape what comes next.

Create differentiated offerings

Bring frontier cyber reasoning into the products and services customers already trust, helping defenders find, validate, prioritize, and remediate threats.

Bring frontier capabilities to market responsibly

Develop bounded, authorized workflows with safeguards, monitoring, human review, and expert judgment built in.

What partners can help defenders do

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Two ways to partner

Product integrations

Embed approved capabilities into bounded product workflows and curated outputs inside the tools customers already use.

Managed services

Bring OpenAI cyber capabilities into managed and advisory services while trained partner teams remain hands-on-keyboard and customers receive the outcome.

How the program works

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Apply

Submit your interest through our partner interest form. The OpenAI team will review your interest.

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Connect

If your workflows are a good fit for the Daybreak partner program, the OpenAI team will reach out to initiate discussions.

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Build

Build and validate with support from OpenAI cyber deployment engineering, including safeguards and controls.

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Launch

Activate your product or service, and embed OpenAI’s leading cyber reasoning to serve customers.

Partner spotlight

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As a member of OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Akamai is encouraged by the early capabilities GPT‑5.5 with trusted access is demonstrating for defensive workflows. Moving forward, we are excited to evaluate the many ways we can potentially leverage this technology to protect our business, elevate the security of our product portfolio, and deliver even stronger, AI-driven defense for our global customer base.
Mani Sundaram, EVP and General Manager, Security Technology Group, Akamai

Help shape the next generation of cyber defense

Daybreak is expanding through a controlled rollout. We’re gathering interest from organizations building or delivering governed cyber capabilities.

Submitting interest does not guarantee program inclusion, model access, or a production timeline.