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Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws
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Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Center, said organizations should brace for a looming "patch wave," driven by a backlog of weaknesses now being exposed faster than many teams can realistically fix them.
Key facts
- Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Center, said organizations should brace for a looming "patch wave," driven by a backlog of weaknesses now being exposed faster than many
- Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up
- Prepare to patch quickly, more often, and at scale," is the message from the NCSC
- Artificial Intelligence, when used by sufficiently-skilled and knowledgeable individuals, is showing the ability to exploit this technical debt at scale and at pace across the technology ecosystem
Summary
Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up. "All organizations have 'technical debt'; a backlog of technical issues, that is both expensive and time-consuming, because of prioritising short-term gains over building resilient products," Whitehouse wrote. "Artificial Intelligence, when used by sufficiently-skilled and knowledgeable individuals, is showing the ability to exploit this technical debt at scale and at pace across the technology ecosystem," he added. That warning lands as vendors roll out tools built to do exactly that.