For years, finding vulnerabilities was often the bottleneck. Now that equation may be changing.
AI is rapidly shrinking the time required to discover vulnerabilities, and the bigger challenge may soon become:
🔹 Verifying findings quickly
🔹 Performing responsible disclosure at scale
🔹 Building and testing patches faster
🔹 Getting users to deploy updates quickly
🔹 Managing increasing pressure on security teams
This could fundamentally reshape how we think about vulnerability management. The traditional coordinated disclosure model was built around a world where vulnerabilities were discovered at a human pace. But if AI can surface thousands of findings in days, can existing disclosure cycles realistically keep up?
As result, I believe we could see Shorter vulnerability closure cycles, Increased automation in triage and remediation, AI-assisted patch development, Evolution of responsible disclosure processes and Greater focus on preventive secure-by-design practices.