AI's Impact on Exposure Management and the Evolution of Validation Strategies

The article discusses how AI has increased vulnerability discovery rates, highlighting the limitations of CVSS in prioritizing threats and the need for integrated validation methods like exploitability testing and security control validation. It emphasizes the importance of context-specific validation to address the growing gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation.

There's a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost in the hubbub. Vulnerability discovery is getting faster and happening at a much greater scale, while defenders still have to work out which findings actually deserve their action.

In the first half of 2026, a whopping 35,853 CVEs were published, roughly 49% more than in the

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