Anthropic's new Claude Security tool scans your codebase for flaws - and helps you decide what to fix first

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AI vulnerability scanning is moving into developer workflows.

Claude Security turns findings into prioritized fix guidance.

The big challenge is keeping these tools from attackers.

Anthropic has announced Claude Security, a new defensive cybersecurity product. Right now, it's available in public beta to Enterprise-tier Claude users, with availability "coming soon" to Claude Team and Max-tier users.

Also: Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend world's most critical software

Claude Security is another tool in Anthropic's cyberdefense toolbox. It gives security teams a way to "scan codebases for vulnerabilities and generate targeted patches" using the Claude Opus 4.7 model.

Earlier in the month, Anthropic debuted Project Glasswing, an AI Manhattan Project aimed at finding vulnerabilities in the world's infrastructure of open-source software.

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