The management of vulnerabilities is becoming increasingly difficult as the volume of new flaws and the speed of exploitation rise dramatically. CVEs are being published at an unprecedented rate, and AI has accelerated the time it takes to turn those vulnerabilities into live exploits, creating significant concerns for security teams.
The first half of 2026 has already seen more CVEs published than any previous full year before 2024.
These vulnerabilities are being reported at an alarming rate, approximately one every 7.4 minutes, suggesting a growing risk for organizations.
AI has fundamentally changed the speed at which vulnerabilities can be turned into live exploits, reducing the median time for exploitation to well under a day in 2026.
This shift means that defenders have less time to patch vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
Current defenses are not advancing as quickly as the emergence of new vulnerabilities, leaving security teams unable to keep pace with the backlog of issues.
Traditional methods of automated pentesting only allow for testing a limited section of an organization's attack surface, leaving many vulnerabilities unexamined.
Organizations can no longer rely solely on live exploits to assess vulnerabilities because many systems are too sensitive or regulated for traditional testing methodologies.
The Picus Platform addresses this coverage gap by allowing organizations to prove exploitability without relying on publicly available exploits.
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The management of vulnerabilities is becoming increasingly difficult as the volume of new flaws and the speed of exploitation rise dramatically. CVEs are being published at an unprecedented rate, and AI has accelerated the time it takes to turn those vulnerabilities into live exploits, creating significant concerns for security teams.