CYBERSECURITY
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Top 6 Claude Cowork Security Risks to Watch
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Cloud Security Alliance
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Most security teams evaluate Claude Cowork as if it were a chatbot with extra buttons. It isn’t. Cowork is a local agent that runs on the employee’s machine, reads their files, runs shell commands, browses …
Most security teams evaluate Claude Cowork as if it were a chatbot with extra buttons. It isn’t. Cowork is a local agent that runs on the employee’s machine, reads their files, runs shell commands, browses the web with their logged-in cookies, and connects to the enterprise systems they can reach. As Anthropic frames it, when something goes wrong, the impact depends on what Claude can read and what Claude is allowed to do. That changes the threat model. A prompt injection against a ch…