Industry Experts

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals.

- AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations.

Agentic remediation is not an act of faith. We are talking about fixing known problems, not judgment calls about unfamiliar risk.

Point-in-time audits and sampled assessments offer only snapshots; continuous control monitoring provides evidence that security controls are working today.

Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.

Security teams must treat autonomous agents as highly privileged identities.

For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality.

Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop.

Silent patches can become exploit intelligence for attackers while leaving defenders without the context needed to prioritize risk.

The skills that get a CISO hired are rarely the skills they are judged on later. Most security leaders are stuck in that gap. Closing it is the real job.

As AI dramatically shortens the time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, enterprises must look beyond patching to reduce application risk.

Organizations are rushing to implement AI without fully grasping where its legal protections begin and end.

Build your strategy around answering these questions to ensure employees use AI productively while keeping sensitive data, IP, and agent behavior within the boundaries set for safe AI use.

The best compliance programs aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones built on a short list of questions that can actually be answered, and that still hold true when the models change.

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win.

Identity confidence changes throughout every interaction and should be reassessed continuously as new risk signals emerge.