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“We are introducing additional automation to validate the quality and severity of the vulnerabilities and support remediation at AI speed, while keeping human developers in the loop to maintain correctness and quality.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
Validate quality and severity
Does this result prove an access-control flaw? Practise the check.
ExamplePrioritising by exposure
“Triage by exposure and impact, not raw count.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
“Severity continues to be grounded in real-world impact and exploitability, drawing on the full set of signals in the Security Update Guide.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
Containing access
“Speed of detection and containment are now as important as speed of patching.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
What AI changes
“When paired with advanced security tooling, recent models are demonstrating the ability to find software vulnerabilities at a level approaching experienced human security researchers.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
Models approach human researchers
Does this result prove an access-control flaw? Practise the check.
Example“Advanced AI models are surfacing additional issues in code we have already studied closely, mostly within well-understood vulnerability categories.”
Tom GallagherVP Engineering, Microsoft Security Response Center
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