Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker

ai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues.

The new security capability is currently available as a limited research preview for enterprise and team customers to test in their environments, and open-source maintainers can apply for free, expedited access.

The announcement sent some cybersecurity stocks into a downward spiral and prompted much pontificating about the end of security as we know it - along with a dissenting opinion from CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz. His firm's shares were among those hit on Friday, closing the day down nearly 8 percent from the previous close, and Kurtz asked Claude if its new security tool could replace what CrowdStrike does (tl;dr: Claude said no).

The reality, however, isn't nearly as gloomy for the security ...