Arctic Wolf & Anthropic to develop autonomous AI cyber SOCs

Arctic Wolf has announced a strategic research and development collaboration with Anthropic to advance safe, scalable, and autonomous security operations.

This partnership brings together Arctic Wolf's expertise in security operations with Anthropic's AI research capabilities, focusing on the development of next-generation autonomous Security Operations Centres (SOCs). The collaboration leverages the human augmented AI capabilities of the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform alongside Anthropic's advanced AI models and knowledge in creating safe and interpretable AI systems.

The Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform is designed on an open Extended Detection and Response (XDR) architecture. It processes over 8 trillion security events weekly, covering endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and identity, while integrating with hundreds of third-party tools. The platform aims to provide real-time visibility across enterprises. Arctic Wolf states that, with a global customer base exceeding 10,000 organisations and a significant operational data lake, it has established a strong foundation for cyber security operations.

The partnership is intended to enhance automation within Arctic Wolf's AI-powered SOC. By combining Arctic Wolf's extensive datasets and operational knowledge with Anthropic's large language model (LLM) technologies, the companies plan to improve threat detection precision, accelerate response times, and reinforce cyber resilience in response to the increasing sophistication and volume of cyber threats.

The first product resulting from this collaboration is Cipher, an AI security assistant developed to assist customers in obtaining deeper insights from the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform. According to Arctic Wolf, Cipher is designed to meet high standards of safety, privacy, and performance, reflecting the two companies' collective efforts towards safer and more autonomous SOC operations.

Dan Schiappa, President, Technology and Services at Arctic Wolf, said, "To keep up with the speed and complexity of today's cyber threats, the Autonomous SOC is no longer aspirational, it's essential. Anthropic brings world-class AI research and a deep commitment to building safe, high-performing systems. When paired with the scale of Arctic Wolf's threat data, the openness of our platform, and the operational depth of our global SOC, we have everything needed to redefine what security operations can be."

Michael Gerstenhaber, Vice President of Product at Anthropic, commented, "As model capabilities increase, access to expert, domain-specific data remains the bottleneck in highly complex jobs like cyber operations. We're proud to support Arctic Wolf's development of Cipher and excited to see how it empowers security teams with instant, reliable access to the intelligence they need to conduct their operations."

By uniting Arctic Wolf's operational data and experience with Anthropic's AI modelling expertise, both organisations intend to deliver incrementally improved security automation and advanced decision-making capabilities for enterprise security teams. With the introduction of Cipher, the collaboration aims to equip security teams with tools that increase the speed, accuracy, and intelligence of their operations.