Picture this: Your vulnerability scanner just finished its weekly run and flagged 347 critical vulnerabilities across your environment. Your patch management process kicks in. Tickets get created. Change requests get filed. Maintenance windows get scheduled. Your team starts the long slog of patching, testing, and deploying updates. Three months later, you're still working through that list. And this week's scan just found 289 new critical vulnerabilities. You're running on a

Here's a scenario that should make every security professional uncomfortable: A new CVE drops at 9 AM. By 11 AM, AI-assisted threat actors have analyzed the vulnerability, generated working exploit code, and begun scanning for vulnerable targets. By noon, the first attacks are underway. Meanwhile, your security team is still reading the advisory. This isn't a hypothetical future—it's happening right now. And it fundamentally changes the game we're playing. The New Math of Vul