Google Mandiant AVDH: Agentic Orchestration Accelerates Vulnerability Discovery
Google Mandiant has introduced the Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH), transitioning vulnerability research from rule-based scanning to autonomous agentic orchestration. By deploying multi-agent chains capable of LLM-driven semantic reasoning, AVDH executes complex code traversal and automated proof-of-concept (PoC) generation. In large-scale testing involving tens of millions of lines of code, the harness identified over 100 high-severity vulnerabilities within 48 hours. This capability fundamentally accelerates the vulnerability discovery lifecycle, drastically compressing the window between code deployment and exploitation, forcing a shift toward autonomous, AI-driven defensive orchestration to mitigate the risks posed by industrial-scale automated discovery.