AI can help track an ever-growing body of vulnerabilities, CISA official says

Artificial intelligence could be a key tool for helping organizations keep track of an ever-expanding catalog of identified software flaws, a top official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Thursday.

CISA sponsors the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, which publishes standardized data about known cyber vulnerabilities. The number of vulnerabilities the CVE program published last year rose to 40,000, said Chris Butera, acting deputy executive assistant director of cybersecurity at CISA.

“For any organization to try to track and hash against 40,000 different vulnerabilities within their IT ecosystem, it’s a very complex challenge,” he said at Thursday’s GDIT Emerge event, produced by Scoop News Group. “We can do a lot more with automation, and that’s where maybe AI can help us in the automation pieces.”

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