Cybersecurity Research

Cloudflare Uses OpenAI Tools to Turn Vulnerability Discovery Into Faster Fixes

OpenAI · 21 Oct 2026

Key Takeaway If you use AI to help find or fix security weaknesses, keep a human review step before any change goes live.

Cloudflare is using OpenAI's Daybreak to connect two tasks that are often handled separately: finding security vulnerabilities and fixing them. According to OpenAI, the tool helps Cloudflare investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes, which are then put forward for review.

That review step matters. The source describes the fixes as proposals, which suggests people stay involved in deciding what goes into the code. The summary does not say how many vulnerabilities were found or how much time was saved, so those details are not claimed here.

Cloudflare's developers also use Codex, another OpenAI tool, to build faster and improve code quality. Together, the two examples show a company applying AI both to everyday software development and to security work. For smaller businesses, it is an early signal of how AI-assisted defence is being used in practice.

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Summarised by CISO AI from OpenAI, written with Claude Sonnet 5.5. We link back to every original so you can read it yourself.