What Boards Must Demand in the Age of AI-Automated Exploitation

The piece warns that AI-driven automation is collapsing the cost and speed of exploitation, turning large vulnerability backlogs from a tolerable compliance issue into a material operational risk; it urges boards to demand operational truth, CISOs to build end-to-end vulnerability management and resiliency, and organizations to reduce vulnerabilities by design while noting evolving regulatory pressures (e.g., CRA, DORA) and offering Chainguard’s secure-by-default approach as a mitigation.