Fleet Device Management has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing as the device management vendor looks to address a widening security gap between how quickly vulnerabilities can be exploited and how fast organizations can identify and remediate them.
The move comes as Fleet’s recent Road to AI in IT survey found 79% of organizations take more than a day to deploy critical security patches for browsers, operating systems and extensions, even as attackers increasingly exploit vulnerabilities within hours.
Security and device management gain frontier AI edge
By joining the project, Fleet will evaluate how frontier AI can strengthen the security of device management systems, MDM protocols, and the infrastructure that supports them.
Further, it will look into how these capabilities can improve defensive workflows, including understanding endpoint state, identifying remediation priorities, and increasing the speed and safety of internal security operations.
“As a company that specializes in making IT and security teams’ lives easier, celebrating Fleet’s founding anniversary with a renewed commitment to our own product security feels fitting,” said Mike McNeil, CEO and co-founder of Fleet.
“We are all about community and transparency. Since Fleet is open source, this Anthropic collaboration will help our customers and the wider security community understand where frontier AI can meaningfully improve the security of endpoint management workflows,” McNeil adds.
READ MORE: We spoke with McNeil in May about how Fleet plans to support MSPs and their customers through its platform.
Patch delays highlight the device management challenge
Fleet cited research from its recent Road to AI in IT survey, which found that 79% of organizations take more than a day to deploy critical security patches for browsers, operating systems, and extensions, even as attackers increasingly exploit vulnerabilities within hours.
This stat highlights a gap between how quickly threats emerge and how quickly IT teams can find and mitigate them.
“As always, we’ll share the lessons and best practices we develop in the open,” said Dhruv Majumdar, VP, Security Solutions at Fleet. “Everyone in the broader device management and endpoint security community can build on them.”
Its participation in Project Glasswing is part of Fleet’s mission to help close that gap by improving the speed and safety of how it identifies, evaluates, and responds to security risks.
“The speed of today’s AI-driven attacks has fundamentally changed what organizations expect from their technology providers,” said Gabe Chan, Staff IT Engineer at Abridge. “Vulnerabilities are manipulated by bad actors almost instantaneously now.”
Chan continued: “As a result, vendors must continuously improve how they identify, evaluate, and respond to risk. We’re encouraged to see Fleet investing in research that helps strengthen its own security while contributing practical learnings back to its customers and the industry.”
Project Glasswing grows as AI comes under greater scrutiny
Anthropic launched Project Glasswing in April 2026 after its Mythos model showed a prowess for identifying vulnerabilities that spooked many security experts.
Since then, companies with products and interests spanning critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, and other software tooling have joined the alliance to share resources and findings.
Fleet’s involvement extends that work into endpoint and device management, where IT teams are under pressure to identify vulnerabilities and remediate them faster.
For MSPs and other service providers managing large numbers of customer endpoints, the project could provide an early indication of where frontier AI can improve security workflows without sacrificing the controls required for sensitive infrastructure.
Fleet also plans to publish lessons and best practices from the work, potentially giving the wider endpoint security and device management community a clearer view into where advanced AI can deliver practical security gains—and where human oversight and existing controls remain necessary.