Wiz in the Verizon DBIR: How AI Acceleration and Cloud Sprawl Impact Modern Defense

**Executive summary:** Wiz’s contribution to the Verizon DBIR and related research warns that vulnerability exploitation is now the leading initial access vector (31% of breaches) and is outpacing remediation—only 26% of KEVs fully remediated and median remediation time rising to 43 days—while third‑party trust relationships, software supply chains, and rapidly adopted AI/agent technologies are expanding and accelerating attacker pathways; defenders should prioritize reducing externally reachable exposure, patching actively exploited vulnerabilities, hardening identities and integrations, securing supply chains, and applying governance to AI systems.