Project Kaleidoscope: Community network defense in the AI era

The Project Kaleidoscope initiative expands community cybersecurity volunteers and shared service hubs, providing hands-on operational support to community organizations such as schools, libraries, and water utilities that cannot afford to build their own defenses. UC Berkeley research shows that Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview successfully exploited 157 of 898 real vulnerabilities in an evaluation benchmark, while OpenAI's GPT-5.5 exploited 120. The authors also cite Cyber Readiness Institute research stating that water utilities with human coach assistance are 3 times more likely to complete cyber resilience projects than those working alone.