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116 companies sign AI cyber defense letter urging government to protect critical infrastructure

8/31/2026

The access gap in AI cyber defense for critical infrastructure operators is the constraint this coalition is pressing government to address.

One hundred and sixteen companies and entities signed a letter calling for a coordinated government effort to make AI-powered cyber defenses accessible to critical infrastructure, which the signatories characterized as under pressure.

AI cyber defense tooling operates at the detection and response layer of the security stack, automating at speeds that manual or legacy architectures cannot match.

The distance between where that capability sits and what critical infrastructure operators can currently deploy and absorb is where the access problem lives. The coalition's framing is explicitly time-bounded.

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