Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government systems
The Government of Alberta has been using Claude Code with both Opus and Sonnet models to review its systems, find vulnerabilities, and fix them. Case Study Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government systems Jul 6, 2026 Since 2025, the Government of Alberta has been using Claude Code with both Opus and Sonnet models to review its systems, find vulnerabilities, and fix them. A team inside Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation scanned 466 million lines of code in 20 hours, remediated security gaps across its systems, and built new tools to make those systems safer.
Key Takeaways
- We're sharing details of their experience as an example of how government agencies can use Claude and Claude Code to secure their systems at a large scale.
This is a critical challenge, as governments rely on these systems to deliver benefits and keep services running-yet the code is often old, insecure, and incompletely documented.
- This is what responsible government looks like in the AI era, and the best is still ahead of us."
Alberta's approach Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation maintains the systems of all 27 provincial ministries, from social services to public safety to wildfire response.
- So in 2025, the Ministry set up an internal team with a mandate to make these systems more secure and easier to maintain over time, working with Claude to do so.
Already, the Ministry has used Claude to: Assess 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours.
- The scan covered every repository Alberta owns and identified issues that traditional automated scanning tools had missed.
It took about 20 hours for Alberta's implementation; the team estimates that that kind of review could otherwise have taken around 6.5 years.
- In some scenarios, these systems could be rebuilt in as little as four to five days, including a subsidy program portal that was originally hand-coded in Java roughly 25 years ago and took five months to build the first time.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Case Study Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government systems Jul 6, 2026 Since 2025, the Government of Alberta has been using Claude Code with both Opus and Sonnet models to review its systems, find vulnerabilities, and fix them.
- #A team inside Alberta's Ministry of Technology and Innovation scanned 466 million lines of code in 20 hours, remediated security gaps across its systems, and built new tools to make those systems safer.
- #Already, the Ministry has used Claude to: Assess 466 million lines of government code in 20 hours.
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