π° Maria Korolov, CSO Online covered NIST's major shift in CVE handling announced at #VulnCon26, as the National Vulnerability Database buckles under a 30,000+ backlog and submissions grow 263% since 2020.
FIRST CEO Chris Gibson weighs in on the vulnerability velocity crisis, with FIRST projecting 59,427 CVEs in 2026 and realistic scenarios cracking 100,000 amid the rise of AI-powered discovery tools like Anthropic's Mythos.
Harold Booth, Supervisory Computer Scientist, NIST outlined the agency's pivot to prioritize KEV-listed and critical software CVEs while turning to LLMs, AI agents, and RPA to tackle the backlog.
Jay Jacobs, Co-Founder & Data Scientist, Empirical Security, FIRST EPSS-SIG Co-Chair, CVE Consumer WG Chair shares optimism that AI-driven automation can help NIST keep pace, noting that even if it isn't Mythos, "something is going to come out next week."
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