# Horizon3 Announces AI Security Lab Using NodeZero Test Data

By Simon Yoon

Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/55737
Published: 2026-11-12T18:13:24.000Z
Updated: 2026-11-12T18:13:24.000Z
Section: Technology

> The lab will study attacks and defenses using data from NodeZero penetration tests. Horizon3 named Purdue University computer science associate professor Z. Berkay Celik as its inaugural director.

Horizon3 announced the Adversarial Intelligence Frontier Lab on Nov. 12, a research program using NodeZero penetration-test data to study offensive and defensive security systems. Purdue University computer science associate professor Z. Berkay Celik will be the lab’s inaugural director.

Horizon3 estimates it collects 30 billion data tokens per day from more than 7,000 customers. The company describes the data as anonymized, aggregated and labeled. Records include commands used in tests, whether they succeeded, how defensive tools responded and context about services behind customers’ firewalls.

Its agenda covers AI-driven offensive methods, adaptive interaction between attack and defense systems, ways to evaluate autonomous agents safely, and improving cyber resilience and operational readiness. It will also oversee Horizon3’s Cyber Resilience Centers of Excellence, which focus on critical infrastructure.

“We've spent years collecting the attack-and-defense data required to research these systems,” Horizon3 CEO and co-founder Snehal Antani said.