Rubrik Expands Its Claude-Powered Code Guardian Alliance: Three New Partners Join Project Hourglass
October 9, 2026 · AI News
Rubrik announced today at its GSI Summit in Goa, India that it’s expanding Project Hourglass — its agentic cyber resilience alliance — with three new partners: AHEAD, Trace3, and WWT. Why it matters: frontier AI cyber capabilities are being pushed to enterprise clients through the world’s biggest systems integrators, not just sold directly.
What happened
Project Hourglass is Rubrik’s alliance for delivering AI-powered cyber resilience through consulting and systems-integration firms. With the new additions, the alliance now includes AHEAD, Trace3, and WWT alongside Cognizant, Deloitte, LTM, HCLTech, NTT DATA, and Wipro — a lineup of the largest IT services companies on the planet.
The partners will deliver two things: Rubrik Code Guardian and Rubrik Agent Cloud. Code Guardian is a custom harness built around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 that red-teams client code — it analyzes a cloned, air-gapped copy of a customer’s source repository to find multi-step vulnerability chains, validate whether they’re actually exploitable, and prioritize what to fix first. Nothing runs against live production systems. The product also offers instant codebase recovery to roll back to a known-good state.
The details
A few things worth knowing for context. Code Guardian itself was first unveiled in mid-September, so today’s news isn’t a new product — it’s the rollout. The product remains in private preview for select design partners, according to earlier announcements. And it’s part of a bigger theme: Anthropic has been opening its most cyber-capable models to defenders, with Anthropic’s cybersecurity lead Michael Moore noting the company is working with Rubrik to put Claude Mythos 5’s cyber capabilities in defenders’ hands so they can find and validate attack paths before attackers do.
Rubrik’s own research arm, Rubrik Zero Labs, reports that 86% of cybersecurity and IT leaders expect the proliferation of AI agents to outpace their organization’s security guardrails within the next year. That statistic is the pitch for the whole alliance: AI agents are multiplying faster than security teams can watch them, so the watchers need AI of their own.
Why it matters
This is the defenders’ side of the AI cyber arms race, and the channel strategy is the real story. Selling frontier AI security tools through Deloitte, Cognizant, Wipro, and friends puts them in front of enterprises that buy security as consulting relationships, not software licenses. For subscribers, the takeaway is that the same frontier models everyone worries about in attackers’ hands are being industrialized for defense — and the systems integrators, not the labs, are becoming the distribution network.
FAQ
What is Rubrik Code Guardian? A service that uses Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 inside a specialized Rubrik security harness to red-team customer code — finding and prioritizing vulnerability chains from an air-gapped copy of the repository, without touching live systems.
What is Project Hourglass? Rubrik’s partner alliance for “agentic cyber resilience,” through which systems integrators deliver Rubrik’s AI security products — now including Code Guardian and Rubrik Agent Cloud — to enterprise clients.
Is Code Guardian generally available? Not yet. It remains in private preview for select design partners, per earlier announcements.
Why does the air-gapped approach matter? Because analyzing code means exposing it to powerful AI. Running everything on an isolated copy means the client’s real repositories and production systems are never at risk from the analysis itself.
Sources: Business Wire (Rubrik), TechNode, Cyber Risk Leaders