The Vulnerability Flood Is Now a Board Conversation. Here's How to Lead It.

I've had some version of the same conversation dozens of times since Mythos and Daybreak emerged. CISOs want to know how worried they should be. My honest answer: less than the headlines suggest, and more than most programs are currently prepared for.

Last year, roughly 50,000 software vulnerabilities were disclosed. Recorded Future tracked 446 that were actually weaponized by threat actors . That's less than 1%. The problem was never finding vulnerabilities. It was always knowing which ones adversaries will actually use.

AI makes that distinction harder. Discovery accelerates for everyone, the noise grows faster than any team can manually triage, and the window between a disclosed vulnerability and a working exploit keeps shrinking. Security leaders who've built intelligence-led programs are ready for what's coming. For them, Mythos isn't a crisis.