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Anthropic launched Claude Code Security to scan code for vulnerabilities. Cybersecurity stocks in US dropped over concerns AI could disrupt the industry.
Claude Code Security Impact: IT, Cybersecurity Shares May See Action On Monday
IT and cybersecurity stocks in India may see action on Monday, February 23 when the market opens, as AI firm Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, a new capability built into Claude Code on the web.
The new feature scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review, allowing teams to find and fix security issues that traditional methods often miss.
What’s The Fear?
The new feature has posed a threat to IT and cybersecurity companies, as Claude Code will provide cybersecurity services to teams.
Companies may rely less on legacy scanning tools and cut spending on traditional enterprises.
“This is a pivotal time for cybersecurity. We expect that a significant share of the world’s code will be scanned by AI in the near future, given how effective models have become at finding long-hidden bugs and security issues,” Anthropic said in the blog.
Attackers will use AI to find exploitable weaknesses faster than ever. But defenders who move quickly can find those same weaknesses, patch them, and reduce the risk of an attack.
This has triggered a fear in the US market last week, in which cybersecurity stocks, including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Zscaler suffered a heavy sell-off.
CrowdStrike, US cybersecurity technology company, led the heavy beating with shares falling almost 8 per cent to $338.60 per share. Zscaler also dropped sharply by 5.47 per cent to $159.75 per share.
How Claude Code Security works
Rather than scanning for known patterns, Claude Code Security reads and reasons about your code the way a human security researcher would: understanding how components interact, tracing how data moves through your application, and catching complex vulnerabilities that rule-based tools miss.
Every finding goes through a multi-stage verification process before it reaches an analyst. Claude re-examines each result, attempting to prove or disprove its own findings and filter out false positives.
Findings are also assigned severity ratings so teams can focus on the most important fixes first.
Validated findings appear in the Claude Code Security dashboard, where teams can review them, inspect the suggested patches, and approve fixes.
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