Frontier AI and the Future of Defense: Your Top Questions Answered

**Executive Summary:** This Unit 42 advisory outlines how frontier AI models can drastically accelerate vulnerability discovery and exploit development, enable vulnerability chaining and large-scale supply-chain and social engineering attacks, and increase identity and access risks; it recommends machine-speed defenses, integrating AI into the SDLC, prioritized patching based on attacker reachability and AI exploitability, and offers Unit 42 Frontier AI Defense services to assess exposure.