Enterprise security teams spent years building data loss prevention (DLP) programs around a predictable set of egress channels: email, USB drives, cloud storage, and sanctioned SaaS apps. Generative AI has rewritten those assumptions almost overnight. Today, the same data those DLP controls were built to protect is flowing into AI interfaces that most organizations have no visibility into and no enforcement capability over.

The fastest way to reduce risk at enterprise scale is to standardize on a vulnerability and exposure management platform that unifies asset visibility, prioritizes what matters, and automates workflow to remediate. In this article, we’ll break down the nine essential requirements security leaders should insist on when evaluating an enterprise vulnerability management system, whether it’s an existing tool in their tech stack or a potential new capability.

The difference between an AI feature and an AI-led operating model becomes clear the moment a security problem becomes difficult. In real-world security operations — where the signal is ambiguous, the evidence spans multiple domains, and the attacker is behaving in unfamiliar ways — architecture matters much more.

Cyber threats are at an all-time high because the digital world is rapidly changing. Every day, new vulnerabilities are found in security systems. Attacks threaten businesses of all sizes by stealing data, disrupting operations, and damaging reputations. It has become clear that Vulnerability Management as a Service (VMaaS) is an effective managed approach for companies to protect their digital assets without managing security systems themselves.

This week, we announced the general availability of Evo AI-SPM, the first operational layer of Snyk’s AI Security Fabric. AI-SPM gives security teams something they’ve never had before: a system of record for AI risk, with the ability to discover models, frameworks, datasets, and agent infrastructure embedded directly in code. For many organizations, that discovery step is a breakthrough.

The threat actor TeamPCP has recently launched a coordinated campaign targeting security tools and open-source developer infrastructure by pivoting with stolen CI/CD secrets and signing credentials (such as GitHub Actions tokens and release signing keys). At the time of writing, repositories for Trivy, Checkmarx, and LiteLLM have been impacted, and reports indicate that at least 1,000 enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) environments may be affected by this threat campaign.