AI Threat Landscape

Attackers are operating at AI speed. Can your defenses keep up?

Frontier AI models are increasingly effective at finding vulnerabilities and turning them into working exploits in hours rather than weeks. That shift is putting pressure on your business from three directions at once — and it's exactly the kind of asymmetry an AI-first defense is built to close.

181 vs 2
Working exploits a frontier model produced on patched Firefox bugs, vs. 2 from a prior model
~50,000
New CVEs added to the National Vulnerability Database last year, and accelerating
Weeks → Hours
How far the exploit window has compressed for newly discovered vulnerabilities
What Changed

The fundamentals of stopping attackers haven't changed. The attackers have.

AI has made attacks faster, higher volume, and harder to detect. The businesses absorbing this pressure have the right posture in place — and increasingly, that posture is AI-driven too.

01

Exploit window has compressed

The window between a vulnerability being discovered and an attacker using it has shrunk from weeks to hours.

02

Vulnerability volume is accelerating

AI is generating new disclosures faster than teams can remediate them. Nearly 50,000 new CVEs were added last year alone.

03

Attacks are designed to go unnoticed

Valid credentials and trusted tools make compromise look like normal business operation.

What AI-Ready Looks Like

Four fundamentals working together.

AI-readiness isn't a single product. It's these four things, layered — the same fundamentals we build into every ElevatedIT.ai engagement.

Reduce

Attack Surface Reduction

Zero Trust access makes your systems and critical infrastructure undiscoverable to anyone without verified access.

Layer

Layered Defenses

Endpoint and network controls stop malicious activity before it executes or spreads.

See

Complete Visibility

AI-driven behavioral baselines surface stolen-credential activity as a high-confidence detection.

Respond

Speed of Response

24/7 SOC coverage with automated playbooks that act the moment a threat is confirmed.

Benefits of AI-Readiness

Close the window AI has compressed.

Attack surface reduction and automated response close the window AI has compressed. More accurate detections and automated containment free your team to focus on the work that moves the business forward.

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