Contrast Security warns vulnerability management fails by 2027

The author argues that traditional vulnerability management programs will collapse by 2027 as AI-driven discovery floods security teams with infinite findings that cannot be manually remediated. Instead of relying on static burn-down charts and CVSS scores, organizations must shift toward runtime context, comprehensive asset inventories, and explicit identity permissions for AI agents. Fixing this requires embedding automated security directly into the development workflow and prioritizing risks based on what is actually reachable and running in production. Open article →