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.
FAQ
What is frontier AI?
Frontier AI represents the most advanced general purpose AI models that tackle complex tasks with unprecedented speed and scale. They're accelerating productivity and automation while reshaping cyber capabilities for defenders and attackers alike.
Why is frontier AI a cybersecurity concern?
Frontier AI can significantly accelerate vulnerability discovery to exploit timeline, from months and weeks to hours. As these capabilities become more widely accessible, organizations face increasing pressure to identify, prioritize and close critical exposures before adversaries do.
How does frontier AI change cyber risk?
Organizations must move beyond finding vulnerabilities to identifying the attack paths most likely to be exploited and disrupt the business. They need real-time visibility, prioritized remediation and resilient security operations with clear ownership.
What is a frontier AI Readiness Assessment?
NTT DATA's Frontier AI Readiness Assessment shows where your cyber defenses stand and what to tackle next. We identify exploitable attack paths, prioritize critical risks and help build AI-era resilience. You'll get a readiness scorecard, clear remediation priorities and an actionable roadmap.
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.
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.
"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."
— Sheetal Mehta, Executive Managing Director and Global head of Cybersecurity