Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

During a recent video interview, we spent time unpacking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes a vulnerability critical? Severity scores, exploitability, and asset importance all factor into the answer. But one layer of context consistently changes the urgency of a finding more than most teams expect: internet exposure. The difference between a vulnerability that exists and one that matters often comes down to whether an attacker can reach it.

We are witnessing the birth of a new profession in the blend of security engineering and security operations, a discipline that didn't exist five years ago because the systems it protects didn't exist five years ago. As artificial intelligence moves from experimental to essential and agentic systems begin to perceive, reason, act, and learn autonomously, we need defenders who can operate at the same velocity. I'm talking about the AI Security Engineer.

The Notepad++ incident is a reminder that the tools we use to build our businesses can also be used to break them.

OAuth is a commonly used authorisation framework, that allows websites and web applications to request limited access to a user’s account on another application. Users can grant this limited access to their account, without ever needing to expose their password with the requesting website or application. This is commonly seen with sites that allow you to log in with popular accounts such as a social media login, Microsoft or Google account.

AI accelerates discovery — but enterprise trust still depends on deterministic validation, remediation automation, and governance at scale. Last Friday, Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, powered by Opus 4.6, inside Claude Code. The demo is impressive: Frontier AI reasoning scanned open source codebases and surfaced over 500 previously unknown high-severity vulnerabilities — including subtle heap buffer overflows that had survived decades of expert review and fuzzing.

Vulnerability remediation is an important way to keep systems safe from possible attacks in a world where cybersecurity is always changing. Since cyberattacks are becoming more common, finding and fixing system flaws is no longer a choice; it's a must. One security hole that isn't fixed can lead to large-scale data breaches that cost businesses millions of dollars.