After Cheap Discovery: From unknown to known-and-unfixed
This paper argues the real security bottleneck is no longer finding bugs but the growing inventory of known-yet-unpatched flaws, as automated discovery far outstrips organisational remediation capacity.
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arXiv:2609.03266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated vulnerability discovery has removed the scarcity of expert attention that protected most software. The response has concentrated on discovery and on repair, and both are becoming cheaper. This article argues that neither cost curve determines exposure. What determines it is remediation coverage at the release decision: the fraction of identified vulnerabilities fixed before a product ships, and the residue of known, assessed, unremediate
Editorial Analysis
European enterprises adopting AI-powered scanning face ballooning known-unfixed backlogs; the strategic risk is no longer ignorance but demonstrable inaction on disclosed vulnerabilities.
Audit your mean-time-to-remediate against the volume of automated discovery findings to identify capacity gaps before regulators or attackers exploit them.
Automated vulnerability discovery is outpacing our ability to fix what we find—board-level investment in remediation capacity is now the binding constraint.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
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