IBM Says to Boost Open-Source Security with $5 Bn Project
The program will use AI and engineers to validate patches, with IBM saying major banks have already tested the system.
- On Thursday, International Business Machines CEO Arvind Krishna announced a $5 billion initiative dubbed Project Lightwell, utilizing Anthropic's Mythos AI to identify and patch vulnerabilities within open-source software.
- Hackers have increasingly targeted open-source code as its importance to the global technology stack grows, prompting IBM to deploy AI tools that Krishna described as "remarkably adept at finding vulnerabilities."
- As part of this push, IBM and Red Hat are dedicating 20,000 software engineers to create a trusted enterprise clearinghouse that validates and tests patches before automated deployment.
- Major financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Mastercard, and Visa have already signed on as early adopters of the patching program.
- Capital analyst Matthew Swanson noted that IBM maintains a significant incentive to protect the ecosystem as one of the world's largest providers of open-source software, four years after tech giants agreed to boost security investment.
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