AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals

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People who know me well know that I am a very direct person and as such, I don’t enjoy overcomplicating terms used to describe straightforward things. In recent months, Frontier AI and other tools have allowed attackers and defenders alike to shorten the time required to identify vulnerabilities and develop exploits for those vulnerabilities. With this has come an awful lot of hype and buzz around the topic of “virtual patching.”

I was on a call with a colleague the other day, and he asked me, “Have I gone mad, or is virtual patching not a new thing?” To which I responded, “No, you haven’t gone mad, virtual patching is nothing particularly new – people used to call it defense-in-depth, among other things.” In other words, the recent press around Frontier AI has given some in the security industry an excuse to create a new term for a security best...

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