The Vulnpocalypse: When Vulnerabilities Outpace Your Team, What Do You Fix First?
A vulnerability backlog may be unavoidable, but treating every alert as a top priority shouldn't be. With the introduction of advanced AI models, such as Mythos from Anthropic and the Daybreak Cyber Initiative from OpenAI, the pace of vulnerability discovery will soon turn into a "vulnpocalypse" that will push traditional remediation to its breaking point. In this environment, security teams face an increasingly difficult question: when you can’t fix everything, what should you fix first?
The reality is that you cannot remediate every vulnerability, especially when AI is accelerating the discovery rate. Severity alone doesn’t tell you what matters most because a critical vulnerability isn’t always automatically your most important exposure. Without the right context, teams can spend scarce time working through an endless queue of CVEs without knowing whether those efforts are meaningfully reducing risk.
In this session, we’ll explore how security leaders and practitioners can shift from trying to find and fix everything toward focusing on the exposures that matter most. By bringing together threat intelligence, asset criticality, exploitability, attack-path context, and business impact, teams can make clearer remediation decisions, focus limited resources, and act on meaningful risk before attackers do.
You’ll learn how to:
The reality is that you cannot remediate every vulnerability, especially when AI is accelerating the discovery rate. Severity alone doesn’t tell you what matters most because a critical vulnerability isn’t always automatically your most important exposure. Without the right context, teams can spend scarce time working through an endless queue of CVEs without knowing whether those efforts are meaningfully reducing risk.
In this session, we’ll explore how security leaders and practitioners can shift from trying to find and fix everything toward focusing on the exposures that matter most. By bringing together threat intelligence, asset criticality, exploitability, attack-path context, and business impact, teams can make clearer remediation decisions, focus limited resources, and act on meaningful risk before attackers do.
You’ll learn how to:
- Recognize where traditional vulnerability prioritization can create unnecessary remediation work.
- Bring threat, exploitability, asset, and business context together to identify what deserves attention first.
- Align security and IT teams around a unified, actionable remediation strategy.
- Future-proof your security program against AI-driven vulnerability surges by evolving from traditional vulnerability management to continuous exposure management.
Speaker Details
Wade Woolwine
Software Engineer, Rapid7
Joel Alcon
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Rapid7
Event Topic
CybersecurityRelevant Audiences
All Military, All State and Local Government, All Federal Government, All Education, All Private Sector, All Government Contractors
Event Type
Virtual / Online
Event Subtype
Webinar / Webcast
When
Wed, Sep 30, 2026 | 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm ET
Registration Cost
Complimentary
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