California Chief Information Security Officer Vitaliy Panych<\/a> said his agency, the California Department of Technology, was already using Claude and had very quickly discovered more than three dozen vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are not waiting for the threat to mature before we act,\u201d Panych said in an emailed statement. \u201cOur teams are already using Claude across vulnerability management and security operations, and in early use one of our security engineers surfaced 40 vulnerabilities in a fraction of the time it would normally take.\u201d<\/p>\n AI has significantly raised the stakes in cybersecurity, especially as frontier models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have been introduced. During a May congressional hearing<\/a>, Center for Democracy and Technology Vice President of Policy Samir Jain<\/a> warned that frontier AI models can uncover vulnerabilities that have been hidden for years, potentially allowing nation-state and criminal actors to identify weaknesses in government systems faster than agencies can address them.<\/p>\n An industry report<\/a> in April said that AI assumptions about cybersecurity were already outdated, with the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation shrinking to hours and, in some cases, minutes.<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s partnership with SLTTs comes as experts have encouraged cyber leaders to use AI to find their own system weaknesses ahead of bad actors.<\/p>\n The effort is distinct from Project Glasswing<\/a>, the restricted-access program built for critical infrastructure partners, Cohen said. Eligible entities, which also include special districts like port authorities or utilities and very large cities and counties, may apply for up to $100,000 in Claude credits with a six-month expiration. Anthropic\u2019s applied AI team will provide support to selected public-sector teams through technical training and scheduled calls.<\/p>\n Texas Cyber Command, which is also part of the initial cohort, is using the opportunity to hone its responsiveness and flank emerging threats.<\/p>\n \u201cThere remains a lot of uncertainty and unknowns about what fully mature AI capability will mean when it comes to cybersecurity, but we do know that any number of bad actors will try to operationalize this, bringing a degree of disruption which will be difficult to deal with at speed,\u201d its Cyber Chief Timothy \u201cTJ\u201d White<\/a> said in a statement. \u201cThis teamwork \u2026 ensures we aren\u2019t just reacting to potential disruption but building the agility needed to outpace emerging threats.\u201d<\/p>\n Both Panych and White referenced the speed with which cyber criminals can act in the AI age. California, Panych said, \u201cdefends more people and more critical systems than almost any government in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis partnership lets us meet that scale with speed, identify weaknesses before adversaries can exploit them, and set a standard other states can build on,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is how you get ahead of these threats and stay ahead.”<\/p>\n
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