Study Uses Claude to Automate Attack-Surface Reduction

Research shows automated attack-surface analysis with Claude: mapping reachable code and removing unneeded exposure reduces the reachability and severity of unknown vulnerabilities without fixing individual bugs. Across 25 open-source projects in multiple languages, Claude found 493 issues, which the authors say makes the approach an economical security improvement.

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