From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window

The article warns that AI massively compresses the reconnaissance-to-exploitation window by automating vulnerability chaining, identity-hopping, and context-aware social engineering, while also turning AI systems themselves into new attack surfaces via prompt injection, vector-store poisoning, and supply-chain squatting; it urges organizations to shift from reactive patching to Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to focus remediation on converging exposures that enable lateral movement to critical assets.