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Frontier AI and cybersecurity

Beyond the frontier AI patch race

Discover why faster patching isn’t enough for the frontier AI era

From months to hours: frontier AI is collapsing the cyberattack timeline

Frontier AI is changing the game, making it faster to find vulnerabilities, validate exploits and map attack paths. Patching faster is no longer enough. Security leaders need to prioritize the risks that matter most while strengthening software assurance, AI governance and resilience by design.

The security leader’s playbook for AI-era cyber resilience

Frontier AI is taking vulnerability discovery much further. Frontier models are increasingly capable of helping validate exploitability and connect vulnerabilities into credible attack paths. This changes cyber risk from a vulnerability-volume problem into a resilience challenge.

Explore five emerging AI capability trajectories and practical defensive priorities security leaders can use to prepare over the next four quarters and into FY2027.

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Test your readiness for frontier AI

Frontier shifts cyber economics like never before

Minutes

New vulnerabilities can be discovered in minutes.

Hours

Vulnerability discovery has shrunk to hours.

80-90%

Cyberattacks are autonomous.

Months

Only months to prepare for this emerging risk.

Minutes

New vulnerabilities can be discovered in minutes.

Hours

Vulnerability discovery has shrunk to hours.

80-90%

Cyberattacks are autonomous.

Months

Only months to prepare for this emerging risk.

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Frontier AI is redefining cyber risk and resilience at an unprecedented speed. Security leaders need to gain clarity on their Frontier AI risks, prioritize remediation tied to business impact and transformation roadmap that continuously reduces risk, protects what matters, strengthens AI governance and builds AI-era resilience.

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Sheetal Mehta
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Executive Managing Director and Global head of Cybersecurity

FAQ

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Know. Prioritize. Act.

Defenders have less time than ever

  • Vulnerability discovery to exploit window has shrunk to hours from weeks and months earlier.

Know what can hurt you

  • The critical question is no longer how many vulnerabilities exist, but which validated attack paths can impact business.

Fix what matters most

  • Organizations need clear actions, ownership, timelines and validation processes to fix what matters to their business.

Board-level readiness

  • Frontier AI is a board -level cyber risk and resilience conversation.