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The article addresses a critical bottleneck in AI-driven vulnerability management where generative models are collapsing the timeline between disclosure and exploit weaponization from years to hours. This shift forces security teams to move beyond traditional patching cycles toward immediate mitigation strategies for zero-day threats that can be rapidly synthesized by AI. The core challenge remains whether human-scale operations can keep pace with exponentially growing vulnerability counts amplified by automated attack generation.
Vulnerability management is reaching the limits of human scale

Our 2026 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report confirms that security teams are taking vulnerabilities seriously, with a 75% YoY reduction in exploitable in-use vulnerabilities. However, it also revealed a concerning trend: Vulnerabilities are growing, and teams are struggle to keep up. Are we reaching the limit of human scale? And, if so, what can security teams do to catch up? The MITRE Corporation tracks reported vulnerabilities on cve.org. The trend is scary, showing an exponential growth in recent years: To help our users navigate this issue, we introduced Risk Spotlight in 2022.…
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