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[iot-wg] How Frontier AI is changing IoT security (and what it means for our projects)

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all having a great week.

Our Executive Director, Mike Milinkovich, recently published a must-read post on the Eclipse Foundation Blog: Frontier AI and the next phase of software vulnerability defence. It hits on a massive shift that directly impacts our edge and industrial IoT community.

As many of you know, the traditional mindset in OT and factory floors has often been, "If it works, don’t patch it," because software updates can cause costly operational downtime. However, frontier AI systems have crossed a threshold where they can now autonomously scan software, find vulnerabilities, and analyse exploitability at machine speed. In this new reality, leaving legacy systems unpatched is becoming a major security risk.

To stay ahead of this wave, the Eclipse Foundation, through our partnership with the Alpha Omega Project, has been actively participating in Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. This initiative gives us early access to the Claude Mythos Preview platform to develop advanced, multi-step defensive security workflows.

The Eclipse Foundation is currently the only European-domiciled entity with access to this platform. This unique position ensures that our European-led open source initiatives and data spaces are backed by some of the most sophisticated AI-assisted infrastructure in the world.

What this means for Eclipse IoT projects

This brings immense protective value to our entire ecosystem. Because of our involvement, affiliated projects under the Eclipse IoT Working Group will be proactively notified about discovered vulnerabilities in strict accordance with our established Eclipse Security Policy, allowing us to patch and protect our open- ource software before threats escalate.

This shift underscores exactly why our upcoming work on security compliance, SBOMs and the CRA is so critical right now.

I highly recommend reading Mike's full article to understand the bigger picture.

Best regards,


Ignacio Ahedo

Program Manager, Oniro, IoT, and Sparkplug WGs | Eclipse Foundation

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