AI vulnerability floods demand root-cause security

I've changed how I think about security leadership over the past 18 months and this conversation with ☁️ Trey Ford, the Chief Strategy and Trust Officer at Bugcrowd crystallized a lot of it.

Trey's been on every side of the industry from enterprise CISO roles to hands-on-keyboard incident response and at Bugcrowd is on the frontlines of the AI wave that's changing everything about how teams operate.

Teams are responding to AI-generated vulnerability floods the way we've always responded to security problems. Find it, fix it, move on to the next burning tire pile. Except now, the findings com in batches of hundreds or thousands, the exploit window has collapsed to the time it takes to Instacart toilet paper, and of course, your team size hasn't changed.

Managing this at the individual finding level is futile. You have to identify patterns and go after root cause. Why does this class of vulnerability keep showing up? What in the development process is generating it? That's the question that moves the needle.

We also got into how the incentive structures underneath all of this are breaking. Bug bounty economics, patching SLAs, and risk committee processes were all designed for a bygone world where finding vulnerabilities was expensive and slow.

Trey's take on where this lands is genuinely optimistic, but honest that the next 18 months are going to be a slog.

Give it a listen if you're thinking about where security, AI, and software development are headed!

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