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Reclaim the AI Advantage
Stop AI-speed attacks before they start.
Challenges
Frontier AI initially gave attackers an unfair advantage
Threat actors are finding unknown exposures and chaining them across environments to automate attacks at speed and scale.
Traditional scanners are unable to keep pace.
Traditional scanners are unable to keep pace.
Hidden Risk
Frontier AI allows adversaries to turn blind spots into attack paths defenders may see too late or never at all.
Exposure Gaps
Vulnerability scanning and point-in-time offensive testing is unable to find novel AI-driven attack paths, especially in dynamic environments.
Lagging Defenses
Traditional patching and response approaches were not designed for Frontier AI speed and scale.
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Frequently asked questions
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 Continuous Frontier AI Defense is an AI-powered offensive security service that continuously finds, validates, and helps remediate exposure across an enterprise’s full estate, shifting the advantage back to defenders. The service uses frontier AI models, including Anthropic Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6-Cyber, along with Unit 42 expertise to simulate advanced attacks, prove exploitability, and prioritize the actions that reduce the most risk first.
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.