MSSP leaders have rebuffed concerns that the arrival of Claude Code Security will “kill” cybersecurity, although one acknowledged that tools like it could render certain vendors obsolete.
CrowdStrike, Zscaler and Okta were among a number of cyber tech stocks to tumble last month following the release of Anthropic’s tool (their share prices have since partially recovered).
Claude Code Security works by scanning 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”.
But to what extent do the MSSP leaders at the coalface think new AI tools like it are a threat to traditional cyber vendors?
And do they foresee using them themselves?
Paul Starr, CEO of SEP2, argued that the emergence of AI capabilities “may potentially render certain specialist software vendors obsolete”.
“For established players like CrowdStrike and Okta, the challenge is not survival in the age of AI, but rather positioning themselves as the orchestrators of this technology,” he said, however.
Red Helix CEO Marion Stewart agreed that Claude Code Security is “not an existential threat” to established cyber vendors.
“As an MSSP, our role is to help organisations harness AI’s benefits without compromising security posture or regulatory obligations as can often happen if we go back to some of the early public cloud days,” she added.
After CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz using Claude itself to rebuff concerns it could replace security products, Sapphire CEO Ian Thompson said he subscribed to the same viewpoint.
AI has also lowered the barrier of entry for threat actors, he stressed, however.
“AI is behind the 10x increase in phishing. We’ve seen the first instances of AI-generated malware communicating back to the mothership to adapt in real time when we contain it,” he said.
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