Anthropic Releases Claude Code Security AI Tool to Help Defenders Detect Vulnerabilities
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Summary
Anthropic is releasing Claude Code Security, an AI-powered cybersecurity tool designed to help defenders detect novel, high-severity vulnerabilities in code. The tool leverages the same AI capabilities that could potentially be used by attackers, but is being made available specifically to defenders through a limited research preview for Enterprise and Team customers, with expedited access for open-source maintainers. The goal is to improve codebase security and raise the overall security baseline across the industry by putting advanced AI cybersecurity capabilities in the hands of defenders.
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· 4 pulledAI is beginning to change that calculus. We've recently shown that Claude can detect novel, high-severity vulnerabilities.
But the same capabilities that help defenders find and fix vulnerabilities could help attackers exploit them.
Claude Code Security is intended to put this power squarely in the hands of defenders and protect code against this new category of AI-enabled attack.
We're releasing it as a limited research preview to Enterprise and Team customers, with expedited access for maintainers of open-source repositories.
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