Defending Your Enterprise When AI Models Can Find Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever

Introduction Advances in AI model-powered exploitation have demonstrated that general-purpose AI models can excel at vulnerability discovery, even without being purpose-built for the task. Eventually, capabilities such as these will be integrated directly into the development cycle, and code will be more difficult to exploit than ever; however, this transition creates a critical window of risk. As we harden existing software with AI, threat actors will use it to discover and exploit novel vulnerabilities.

Faced with this scenario, defenders have two critical tasks: hardening the software we use as rapidly as possible, and preparing to defend systems that have not yet been hardened.