Post #4186092
2026-07-29 06:47 UTC
This wave will end, and end abruptly.
But probably not until after your organisation has been scared into buying some AI security product or another.
But this does mean that systems are being hardened in real time. In 12 months, your OS will be orders of magnitude more secure than it is today.
Slopware will continue to be slung, but anything appearing on a public repo will be torn apart in seconds, meaning it wouldn’t survive in production.
But when all the systems are getting more and more airtight, we will see metrics dwindle.
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@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 06:54
So where will this leave us? I don’t have the answers. But I do know what future we should be pushing for The Infosec industry is slated to hit a market cap of $1T by 2030. Optimistic, I reckon, but for other reasons. They are banking on vulnerabilities being rampant, literally. But they also know this spike will end. You can’t say a word to convince me that a trillion dollar industry dedicated to ‘protecting’ (loosely) against threats won’t have a hand in ensuring there’s enough threats to justify their existence. Cont…