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AI-Driven Exploitation and the Collapse of Traditional Vulnerability Management
The integration of AI into the attacker's lifecycle has compressed the window between CVE disclosure and weaponization from days to hours. AI-assisted exploit development frameworks and automated reproduction scripts enable threat actors to achieve a "negative" Mean Time to Exploit (MTTE), where vulnerabilities are weaponized nearly simultaneously with discovery. This shift renders traditional scan-and-patch cycles obsolete, as over 80% of organizations failing to patch within a 24-hour window report security incidents. Remediation now requires a transition from reactive patching to AI-driven exposure management and automated mitigation to close the critical speed gap.