Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze
Gartner analyst Craig Lawson argues AI bug-hunters like Anthropic's Mythos have audited major codebases so thoroughly that 2027 could see fewer severe vulnerabilities.
Speaking at Gartner's IT Symposium in Australia, research VP Craig Lawson said AI-driven bug hunting, exemplified by Anthropic's Mythos, is uncovering flaws at unprecedented scale, citing Microsoft shipping over 970 patches in one week and a recent series of CVEs in historically secure OpenBSD. He argued vendors are also using AI to find bugs before release, retiring technical debt and shrinking future zero-day avenues. Lawson predicts 2027 may be the first year with a net drop in vulnerability severity, if not aggregate counts. He also expects AI to enable near-continuous red-teaming and faster fixes, such as generating F5 iRule syntax for virtual patches via Gemini.
- Microsoft shipped over 970 patches in a single week, illustrating record 2026 vulnerability volume.
- Lawson cites recent OpenBSD CVEs as evidence AI finds flaws in historically secure codebases.
- He predicts 2027 could bring the first net drop in vulnerability severity as vendors adopt AI testing.
- AI could enable daily red-team exercises and faster virtual patching, such as F5 iRule generation.
- He urges SOC metric changes, celebrating defended outcomes instead of ticket counts.
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2 min read at theregister.comGartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner
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