Cognizant and OpenAI bring frontier AI cyber defense from vulnerability discovery to validated fixes

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As a member of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Cognizant brings the services, security expertise and implementation scale to help enterprises move frontier AI capability into production-grade defense. TEANECK, N.J., July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it is applying GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber, through its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, to help enterprises move faster from vulnerability discovery to validated, tested fixes. As a member of the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, Cognizant is putting frontier AI capability into its security experts' hands, helping strengthen how clients defend the software they build and operate. Frontier AI is changing the economics of cyber defense. AI can now help surface vulnerabilities across large, complex codebases with greater speed and scale. But discovery is only the beginning. Protecting the enterprise depends on what comes next: validating which findings are real, understanding their impact, developing and testing a patch and landing the fix before an attacker can act. The remediation gap is where enterprises must focus their efforts, and where Cognizant has the domain and institutional depth to help deliver, bringing a cybersecurity practice built over more than a decade, with 5,000+ security professionals. Cognizant's deep experience across regulated industries is intended to give clients the institutional muscle to put frontier capability to work at scale. "Frontier AI has changed the equation for cyber defense, but a model's power only matters in how it is applied inside a real enterprise," said Sandra Notardonato, Global Head of Partner Development and Influencer Relations, Cognizant. "That is where Cognizant's AI Builder approach is designed to deliver. Our security teams bring these capabilities into our clients' code and security operations, helping them move from finding exposures to validating and remediating them. The advantage belongs to defenders who can pair frontier capability with the people and context to apply it responsibly, and that is what we aim to deliver at enterprise scale." Through its Frontier AI Cyber Defense services, Cognizant's security professionals apply GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber across authorized defensive workflows, including secure code review, threat modeling, vulnerability discovery and validatio...

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