---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber"
description: "OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-02-05"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 36
confidence: 0.9
---

# Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber

# Claim

OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber, a trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities while strengthening safeguards against misuse.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Cybersecurity
* Capability: Frontier model release and benchmark movement
* Cope score: 36
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber](https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber)