Security teams are hearing two competing stories. In one, AI completely rewrites the rules of vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and remediation. In the other, AI simply adds speed and scale to problems that security programs already understand. The reality lies somewhere in between.

Discovery Is Accelerating Faster Than Decision-Making

AI analyzes code, generates findings, and proposes patches but organizations still rely heavily on a human in the loop. In this mode, there is no way humans can ever keep up. Instead, teams must use AI to improve visibility and prioritization processes, so humans can approve the remediation steps necessary to successfully be proactive in their security programs.

Every Role Feels The Pressure Differently

Vulnerability management teams face more findings and shorter exposure windows, such as with the PHP2Shell vulnerability , where organizations and government agencies witnessed attacks prior to the planned disclosures.…