AI Is Changing Cybersecurity: New Threats, Faster Patching & VCF Security

AI is fundamentally changing the cybersecurity landscape, accelerating vulnerability discovery, enabling attackers to chain exploits, and forcing organizations to rethink traditional approaches to security and patch management.

Recorded live at VMware Explore 2026, the Virtually Speaking podcast welcomes Bob Plankers and Manish Gaur for a conversation about the evolving threat landscape, AI-powered vulnerability detection, and how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is helping organizations strengthen their security posture.

The discussion explores how Broadcom is leveraging AI to analyze millions of lines of source code, why traditional CVSS-based vulnerability prioritization may no longer be sufficient, and how a shift toward monthly security patches is changing the way organizations approach lifecycle management.

The conversation also examines the importance of reducing attack surfaces, accelerating patch adoption, and leveraging capabilities such as snapshots, live patching, microsegmentation, and vDefend to improve cyber resilience.

Key Topics:

* How AI is transforming vulnerability discovery and exploitation

* Broadcom’s use of AI for proactive product security

* Why vulnerability chaining challenges traditional CVSS scoring

* Monthly security patches and the need for faster lifecycle management

* Reducing attack surfaces and managing open-source security risks

* Using snapshots and recovery capabilities to reduce patching risk

* Strengthening security through Zero Trust, microsegmentation, and vDefend