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Enterprise security has a speed problem. Attackers are getting faster at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, while many organizations still rely on ticket-based remediation, approvals, and scheduled maintenance windows. AI threatens to widen that gap considerably, exposing one of vulnerability management’s largest unchanged challenges: getting the right systems to fix the right problems before attackers exploit them.

Last updated: October 22, 2026. This story is still developing, and we'll update this post as new details are confirmed. Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, are putting a large share of the web at risk. The vulnerabilities, collectively named PHP2Shell, both carry a CVSS score of 9.2, and both allow remote code execution (RCE). Security teams should treat these vulnerabilities urgently and respond accordingly.

The platform determines what is known. AI helps determine what it means. Technology solution providers across virtually every industry are racing to add AI, in some fashion, to their offerings. Vulnerability management providers aren’t immune, either. They’re racing just as fast as the rest of them, sometimes faster. These vendors are embedding copilots, assistants, and agents powered by technologies like Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, and Google Gemini.

The first Aviation ISAC summit, a little over a decade ago, was about forty people in a room in Miami, hosted by the Health ISAC. This year’s conference in Vancouver hosted more than five hundred: airlines, airports, OEMs, suppliers, and government, all in one place for three days. Many in the audience were new to the conference. One of the opening speakers asked first-timers to raise their hands, and a lot of hands went up around the room.