Intercontinental Exchange is joining a high-profile Anthropic initiative to bolster cybersecurity across all divisions of the company, including its mortgage platforms and services.
As one of the new parties in Project Glasswing's expansion this month, the
"Our selection as a Project Glasswing partner, alongside a small number of other organizations that form the backbone of global financial and technology infrastructure, reflects both the criticality of what we operate and the rigor we bring to protecting it," said ICE Mortgage Technology President Bob Hart in a statement sent to National Mortgage News.
"ICE's mortgage technology customers receive the same level of security protecting the world's most critical financial infrastructure," Hart added.
In addition to ICE Mortgage Technology, the parent corporation owns and operates the New York Stock Exchange and other trading entities as well as a fixed income and data services business.
"As part of Project Glasswing, we're advancing the use and sophistication of AI across our cybersecurity in a manner that is secure, auditable and designed for regulated industries," Intercontinental Exchange President Ben Jackson noted separately in a press release.
Business as usual for ICE customers
The introduction, security architecture and administration of Claude Mythos Preview at ICE will be overseen by the company itself, its leadership said.
"As the mortgage industry and its threats evolve, lenders and servicers deserve a technology partner that's already ahead of what's coming — not catching up to it," Hart said of the project.
Users of ICE Mortgage Technology software will not see any disruption to existing processes nor in their
Origins of Project Glasswing
Anthropic
In May, Project Glasswing reported Mythos Preview had discovered more than 10,000 high or critically severe vulnerabilities across software worldwide. The model also identified
The findings revealed "very heightened risk" for enterprise operations,
ICE is one of approximately 150 new organizations from more than 15 countries to enter the expanded consortium this week, as the artificial intelligence platform sought to add partners operating in sectors not represented in the original launch, such as defense, healthcare and communications.
Anthropic declined to release a full list of the institutions asked to join Project Glasswing; however, NATO, Samsung and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity were among the names, according to various media sources.
"What each partner has in common is that a successful attack on their codebase could be catastrophic. For most partners, we estimate that a major attack could affect more than 100 million people," Anthropic said in its announcement.
