25 Years After Code Red: What the Worm Era Can Teach Us About AI Security

This Partner Perspective transcript revisits the 25th anniversary of the Code Red worm with BeyondTrust CTO Marc Maiffret, journalist Dennis Fisher, and James Maude, using the historical incident to illustrate enduring lessons about asset visibility, patching, and vulnerability management. The conversation connects those lessons to modern challenges around rapid AI adoption, highlighting risks like shadow AI and the need for visibility and governance, and serves primarily as a retrospective and guidance piece rather than an actionable technical report.