Cato Networks has joined OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a move that upgrades the Israeli cybersecurity firm’s existing relationship with the AI giant into something considerably more ambitious. The partnership, formalized on June 22, 2026, puts frontier AI models directly into the plumbing of enterprise cyber defense.
Cato had already been part of OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program since May 1, 2026, but Daybreak represents a qualitative leap: integrating models like GPT-5.5 and security-specific tools from Codex into Cato’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform.
What Daybreak actually does
OpenAI launched the Daybreak program around May 2026 with a straightforward thesis. Cybersecurity defenders need to find threats faster, generate patches faster, and verify fixes faster. AI can help them do all three at a scale that human analysts alone simply cannot match.
The program transitions AI capabilities from internal testing environments into production workflows, emphasizing a prevention-first security architecture rather than a detect-and-respond one.
