Earlier this month Microsoft warned that, because the latest AI models can now help discover vulnerabilities, CSOs will see a higher volume of security updates every month. It wasn’t kidding.
Today the company issued a record number of patches, with 59 rated as critical. And Microsoft is now recommending that customers accelerate their patching schedules to more quickly deal with critical flaws.
“Normally we have to wait for October or November to determine if we’ll break the previous [annual] patch volume record,” which was 1,245 vulnerabilities found in 2020, commented Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable. But not this year. Tenable counted 569 CVEs that were patched of...