Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

With the announcement of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, we, as developers and cybersecurity practitioners, find ourselves wondering – is the new model any better at generating secure code? We commission the model to generate a classic CRUD application with the following prompt: The model generates several files of code in one artifact, which the user can manually copy and organize according to the file tree suggested by Claude alongside the main artifact.

Today’s risk environment is constantly evolving as threat actors exploit the complexity of modern software. That's why it's crucial to prioritize security throughout the entire application lifecycle, from beginning to end. However, many software teams only start thinking about security when application development is well underway.

Using strong cryptography is essential for data protection and application security, such as tasks required for hashing passwords (which, technically, isn’t classic cryptography for the sake of encryption). However, some legacy code may still be deployed to production using weak and outdated cryptographic algorithms that weren’t found. How can Snyk Code help you find these vulnerable applications?