AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.

The article argues that AI is dramatically compressing vulnerability discovery and exploitation timelines from days to hours, creating a gap defenders cannot close solely by patching. It recommends shifting to a model of preemption, rapid validation of environment-specific exposure, and temporary/autonomous mitigations (access restrictions, WAF/API rules, isolation, monitoring) to buy time for safe remediation, and positions the watchTowr platform as an AI-driven solution to implement this approach.