The exploit gap is closing, and your patch cycle wasn’t built for this

The Cloud Security Alliance briefing warns that AI-driven autonomous tools are rapidly shrinking time-to-exploit (now under ~20 hours), enabling large-scale discovery and weaponization of zero-day vulnerabilities (including reported state-sponsored use), and recommends immediate operational changes—agent adoption, updated risk models, accelerated patching, and investment in resilience—to address the elevated pace and scale of attacks.