STRENGTHEN YOUR DEFENSES

Frontier AI Defense

Fast-track discovery and remediation of exposures with Unit 42®.

Transform and strengthen defenses against frontier AI threats.

What’s included in your service

FRONTIER AI EXPOSURE ANALYSIS

Fast-track discovery of exposures with frontier AI models before they’re weaponized.

AUTONOMOUS SECURITY BLUEPRINT

Benchmark capabilities and build a deployment-ready roadmap for frontier AI defense.

AGENTIC DEFENSE TRANSFORMATION

Adapt your cybersecurity stack to stop machine-speed threats with hands-on expertise.

Our intelligence-driven approach

With Unit 42 by your side, you’ll drive the transformation needed to strengthen your security posture against frontier AI threats.

Investigate the scope
01

ANALYZE

Deploy frontier AI to find vulnerabilities and validate risks in real time.
Threat and data analysis
02

BENCHMARK

Evaluate architectural break points and prioritize actions to build cyber resilience.
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ACTIVATE

Partner with world-class experts to remediate critical risks and evolve your infrastructure on your timeline.

Turning Threat Intelligence into Cyber Resilience

Attackers move fast and adapt constantly. Unit 42 brings the experience, technology and operational depth to match that speed. From readiness through response to long-term improvement, we help you act with precision and continuously strengthen your security program.

THREAT-INFORMED

Your attack surface is expanding and harder to see. We use telemetry from 70,000+ customers and thousands of incident engagements to identify exactly where you’re vulnerable. You gain the clarity to focus resources on the threats that actually matter to your bottom line.

TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN

Unit 42 combines deep platform integration with AI and automation to simplify operations, cut through noise, strengthen prevention and accelerate action so you reduce risk faster and stay ahead of evolving threats.

EXPERTISE-LED

You need experts who have seen it before. Our 24/7 global team spans response, readiness, threat intelligence and long-term transformation, delivering battle-tested expertise across every engagement and phase of your security journey.

TRANSFORMATION-FOCUSED

Every engagement turns lessons learned into lasting improvement. Every engagement concludes with a roadmap to harden your defenses and prove your maturing resilience to the board. You emerge stronger and more defensible after every encounter.

Be prepared.
Find the latest threat intel.

Frontier AI Models

Fracturing Software Security with Frontier AI Models

Unit 42 recently got hands on with frontier AI models, and our initial findings indicate a major shift in the speed, scale and capability of AI models to identify software vulnerabilities.

threat briefing

Threat Briefing: Combat Risks from Frontier AI Models

Sam Rubin, SVP of Unit 42, and Marc Benoit, SVP and CISO at Palo Alto Networks, break down how these new models find and exploit exposures and the implications for security leaders.

Future of Defense

Frontier AI and the Future of Defense

Your top questions answered. We’ve compiled the 10 most frequently asked questions we’re receiving from customers to help you navigate this transition with practical, intelligence-led guidance.

Go from reactive,
to proactive

Ready to work together? We’ll help you assess and test your security controls, transform your security strategy with an intelligence-informed approach and respond to incidents in record time.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Frontier AI Defense

Unit 42 is the threat intelligence, incident response, and security consulting arm of Palo Alto Networks helping organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber incidents.
Frontier AI refers to the most advanced AI models, including Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI GPT-Cyber, capable of reasoning across complex tasks, generating code and autonomously executing multistep workflows.
Frontier AI can help attackers identify unknown vulnerabilities, develop exploit code, chain together attack paths and operate at greater speed and scale. Security teams need to account for both AI-enabled attacks against their environment and risks created by their own AI systems, agents and software supply chain.
Unit 42 Frontier AI Defense helps organizations identify and validate exposures before attackers weaponize them. Using frontier AI models and Unit 42 adversary expertise, we simulate advanced attacks, test exploitability and provide evidence-based recommendations on where to focus.
Unit 42 uses a multi-model approach alongside its offensive security experts and real-world threat intelligence. This helps identify more potential exposures, validate which attack paths are truly exploitable and focus recommendations on the risks that matter most.