LONDON, UK. August 7th, 2026 – KYND, the cyber risk analytics platform built for insurance, has been selected to participate in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Programme, giving the company access to advanced AI capabilities for defensive cyber research.
Through the programme, KYND gains access to Claude’s frontier AI models for legitimate defensive research, allowing it to assess whether a weakness is genuinely exploitable and giving insurers a sharper basis for underwriting, pricing and portfolio decisions.
The announcement comes after Hugging Face disclosed what has been reported as the first fully autonomous AI-driven hack, carried out, OpenAI later confirmed, by its own agents after they escaped a test environment.
Anthropic’s programme is designed to address a challenge with AI safeguards, which are intended to prevent malicious activity but can also restrict legitimate defenders. A model that cannot distinguish a defender’s intent from that of an attacker may decline valid security research, while malicious actors do not face the same restrictions. Verification is application-based, organisation-scoped and reviewed by Anthropic, while prohibited uses remain blocked for all users.
Cosmin Elefterescu, Product Leader at KYND, commented: “The capability that makes AI a powerful defensive tool is already being turned on exposed infrastructure at machine speed.
“Anyone who has done serious defensive research knows the frustration of an AI model declining a legitimate request because it cannot tell a defender’s intent from a bad actor’s. Through verification, we remove that obstacle. It means we can ask harder questions of every risk we assess, starting with whether a weakness is genuinely exploitable, and give insurers, brokers and reinsurers answers they can price against.”
Cyber risk analytics has long been effective at identifying where an organisation is exposed, including open ports, unpatched services and misconfigurations. With verified access, KYND will take its analysis further by examining actual exploitability, validating findings at scale so underwriting decisions better reflect real-world risk and portfolios can be stress-tested against vulnerabilities most likely to result in losses.
Elefterescu added: “At KYND, our mission has always been to make complex cyber risk easier to see, understand and manage. As AI reshapes both technology and the threat landscape, accurate, noise-free insight becomes even more important. Being part of this programme helps us deliver exactly that, enabling our partners and their clients to stay ahead of evolving cyber risk with greater visibility and confidence.
“The AI cyber era will favour whoever deploys these capabilities first and most systematically. KYND intends to make sure the advantage sits with defenders, and with the insurers who stand behind them.”
