How AI Is Rewriting the Zero-Day Playbook for Preemptive Security
Rapid7, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Rapid7 examines how AI changes the scramble that follows a zero-day disclosure.
When a critical zero-day is disclosed, CISOs turn to their security operations centers with the same urgent question: are we exposed?
Rapid7 examines how AI changes the process of answering it, from asset and software inventory reconciliation to exploitability assessment in the specific environment.
The post covers where AI genuinely accelerates the work and where it risks producing confident but wrong exposure answers. It argues that preparation, not response speed, determines the outcome. The piece is aimed at security operations leaders.