What Fal.Con 2026 Reinforced: AI Makes Proving Exposure More Important Than Ever
Horizon3's Fal.Con 2026 recap argues AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery makes continuous attacker-based exposure validation essential for defenders.
In a Fal.Con 2026 recap, Horizon3 argues that AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, making attacker-derived evidence about real exploitability the key prioritization signal. Horizon3 announced it joined CrowdStrike's Project QuiltWorks, with NodeZero exploitability intelligence flowing into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and Falcon Fusion SOAR workflows able to trigger NodeZero 1-Click Verify for remediation testing. The company reported running over 1,200 NodeZero demos during the show, and CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz's keynote framed AI red teaming and offense-informing-defense as central themes.