Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI: From Scanning to Resilience
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Organizations must prioritize remediation over scanning to close the gap between finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
While AI-driven scanning tools excel at detection, most organizations struggle with the remediation gap, failing to actually fix what they identify.
Key challenges include the misconception that automated scanning requires minimal oversight, reliance on infrequent scans, and the false belief that every vulnerability must be patched.
Effective prioritization frameworks should weigh exploitability, exposure, asset context, user interaction, and impact rather than severity scores alone. As threat timelines accelerate with AI-enabled attacks, vulnerability management must become a continuous operational function with clear accountability, defined timelines, and transparent tracking across teams.