Beyond The AI Hype: Why Continuous Security Validation Matters More Than Ever
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InnovationBeyond The AI Hype: Why Continuous Security Validation Matters More Than EverByLydia Zhang,Forbes Councils Member.for Forbes Technology CouncilCOUNCIL POSTExpertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. | Membership (fee-based)Jun 04, 2026, 07:30am EDTLydia Zhang, President and Co-founder of Ridge Security. gettyEvery few months, cybersecurity gets a new AI headline that promises to change everything. The latest is Anthropic’s preview of Claude Mythos, an AI system capable of discovering vulnerabilities in production software. It joins a growing list of AI-driven offensive security milestones.Most of the conversation has focused on one question: Can AI find vulnerabilities? The answer is yes.The bigger issue is what happens when AI can continuously discover flaws, generate exploits and move through attack paths at machine speed. That shifts the economics of cyber offense in a very real way.For defenders, it should also change the conversation.AI is speeding up both attackers and risk.The same AI systems that help identify vulnerabilities also generate insecure code. Research from Veracode, Apiiro and others has shown that AI-generated code frequently introduces common security flaws, usually at higher rates than human-written code. And attackers only need one path into an environment.Meanwhile, defenders are expected to manage thousands of findings across cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, endpoints and third-party suppliers.AI widens that gap by enabling attackers to move faster than traditional security programs are designed to respond. For years, the industry’s answer has been more visibility: scanners, dashboards and alerts.But most teams are already overwhelmed, and visibility by itself does not show which risks are truly exploitable. And that distinction matters more than ever.Finding vulnerabilities is not the same as defending against them.Traditional vulnerability manageme...
