In this episode of Mitiga Mic, Field CISO Brian Contos sits down with Mitiga CMO John Vecchi to unpack Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program — the vetting process that lets verified defenders use Claude's full reasoning for the attacker-minded work the models block by default. John explains why the program matters now: the mean time to exploit has gone negative, patches are becoming the attacker's map, and "patch faster" is necessary but no longer sufficient.
The two discuss AI-speed adversaries that chain a foothold across SaaS, identity, AI, cloud, and third-party services in minutes, why logs are now the ground truth, and the mindset shift that decides who survives — assume the attacker gets in and make the gap your strategy.
Read John's blog, "We Joined Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program."
And catch the audio version of Mitiga Mic every other week at Cybercrime Magazine.
