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John Gilroy and Snehal Antani, CEO of Horizon Three AI, discuss the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, emphasizing the need for a shift from compliance to resilience and defense.
The discussion began with taking a look a common list of vulnerabilities. Back in 2021, CISA could develop a list of common vulnerabilities, and they called it the Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog. It was an authoritative list of specific software flaws and security bugs that had been verified in the wild.
Today, malicious actors have overwhelmed us with vulnerabilities. We have reported 1600 software and hardware vulnerability entries, making it almost impossible to address each issue.
Antani argues that what is important it to patch the critical vulnerabilities, not the complete list. He states, "I'd rather patch the right few things quickly than everything slowly."
During the interview, Antani refers to a couple of federal initiatives that reinforce his approach. For example, BOD 26-04 is an initiative from CISA that signals a move from vulnerability identification to real world exposure.
This concern is beyond the federal government. The European Central Bank has looked at threats and is telling bank CEOs that AI is shortening the time from discovery to exploitation
Antani also predicts that small and medium-sized companies will be prime targets for cyber-attacks in the coming months.
From small businesses to federal governments to banks, it looks like we are in the middle of a drastic change in the way organizations handle vulnerabilities
