(BPT) - Key takeaways
- The vulnerabilities buried inside legacy systems at every large organization are no longer hidden.
- While Y2K forced organizations to look honestly at decades of accumulated code, the frontier AI moment is forcing the same reckoning.
- The organizations responding fastest are the ones that have built the capacity to remediate vulnerabilities at machine speed.
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