Five Eyes: AI Has Collapsed the Cybersecurity Timeline
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies’ joint statement on 22 June 2026 marks a turning point in how national security organisations are framing cyber risk. It is not a forecast or a warning about what might happen in the future. It is a declaration that the threat landscape has already changed, and that AI has […]
Why Network-Exploitable Vulnerabilities Should Be Patched First
Enterprises rarely have the luxury of patching everything at once. Limitations in time, change windows, testing requirements, and staffing mean vulnerability management is ultimately a prioritization problem.[1][2] The highest-urgency vulnerabilities are not necessarily the ones with the highest score in isolation. They are the vulnerabilities that attackers can reach without needing physical access, local accounts, […]
Third-Party Application Patching Is Still the Biggest Blind Spot
Patch management has improved a lot over the last few years, but one problem keeps showing up: organisations still do a better job patching operating systems than they do patching the apps people actually use every day. According to the excellent Adaptiva’s 2026 State of Patch Management report, 74% of IT and security professionals have […]
AI Has Turned Vulnerability Prioritisation into a Live Fire Exercise
AI is changing vulnerability management in a way most teams are still underestimating. It is not just helping defenders analyze risk faster, it is also accelerating discovery, which compresses the already difficult window between finding a vulnerability and being able to fix it. That matters because the patch gap has always been the weak point […]
When AI Finds the Bug Before You Can Patch It
The security conversation is changing fast. With recent announcements like Claude Mythos, it is becoming clear that AI is no longer just helping defenders analyze risk, rather it is accelerating vulnerability discovery itself. That shift matters because it compresses the already difficult window between finding a vulnerability and being able to fix it. For years, […]
AI Has Broken the Patch Cycle
The vulnerability management model many organizations still rely on was built for a slower world. Scan a system, triage the findings, prioritize the riskiest items, patch the most urgent ones, and repeat. That process still matters, but it is no longer fast enough for the threat landscape we are now facing. Over the last few […]
AI Has Changed the Tempo of Exploitation
AI is changing cybersecurity in a way that is impossible to ignore: attackers can now find, validate, and weaponize vulnerabilities far faster than most organisations can patch them. Recent reporting shows attackers targeting vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of a CVE disclosure, while major threat reporting says AI-enabled attacks are accelerating and breakout times are shrinking […]
The curious case of the 10.0 CVSS- The 2025 edition
As we look back at the cybersecurity landscape over the past year, 2025 didn’t give us another eye‑watering spike in CVSS 10.0 scores, it did something a bit more insidious. Instead of a single outlier, it cemented a new normal in a deluge of vulnerability volume, thousands of “criticals”, and a patching problem that simply […]
Reporting to the Board
Vulnerability management is under more scrutiny than ever, and boards increasingly expect clear, business‑oriented reporting on how exposed the organization really is. Instead of drowning in scanner outputs and technical jargon, CISOs are being asked a simple question: “Where are we most at risk, and how quickly are we reducing that risk?” Why vulnerability metrics […]
How AI‑Driven Virtual Patching Actually Fits into Your Vulnerability Management Program and How To Measure Success
In vulnerability management, there is a quiet truth everyone knows but few admit: you are never fully patched. Even on a good day, there is always a backlog of missing updates, risky compensating controls, and at least one legacy system everyone hopes the attacker never finds. The reality of “never fully patched” Most programs today […]