New Delhi: Cybersecurity company Tenable has announced its participation in the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a strategic initiative aimed at exploring how advanced artificial intelligence can help organizations identify, prioritize, and reduce cyber risk more effectively.
The collaboration brings together OpenAI’s frontier AI capabilities, including GPT-5.5, with Tenable’s expertise in exposure management to enhance how security teams assess vulnerabilities, prioritize remediation efforts, and respond to emerging threats across increasingly complex digital environments.
The announcement comes at a time when AI is rapidly transforming the cybersecurity landscape. While organizations are leveraging AI to improve operations and productivity, cybercriminals are also using the technology to automate reconnaissance, accelerate vulnerability discovery, and shorten the time between identifying and exploiting security weaknesses.
“The AI era requires a fundamentally new approach to cybersecurity. Attackers are moving faster and operating at a scale that makes purely reactive security untenable.” – Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer, Tenable
To address these challenges, Tenable plans to integrate advanced AI capabilities into workflows powered by the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. The platform helps organizations move beyond simply identifying vulnerabilities by providing contextual insights that distinguish critical risks from less impactful exposures.
Under the collaboration, Tenable and OpenAI will explore several key areas, including advancing cybersecurity research, improving exposure intelligence, accelerating the identification of exploitable attack paths, enhancing risk prioritization, and streamlining security operations to enable faster risk reduction.
According to Eric Doerr, Chief Product Officer at Tenable, organizations need proactive security strategies that can keep pace with AI-driven threats. He noted that Tenable is evaluating how GPT-5.5 can support defensive cybersecurity workflows through secure product integrations, helping customers respond more quickly and confidently to evolving risks.
The initiative aligns with Tenable’s broader strategy of leveraging AI to strengthen exposure management and provide security teams with actionable intelligence. By combining AI-powered analytics with exposure data from across IT, cloud, operational technology, and critical infrastructure environments, Tenable aims to help organizations focus resources on the threats most likely to impact business operations.
With more than 40,000 customers worldwide, Tenable continues to invest in AI-driven cybersecurity innovation, reinforcing its commitment to helping enterprises proactively reduce cyber risk and strengthen resilience in an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape.