AI is ending the era of scarce vulnerabilities, making powerful offensive capabilities abundant and forcing cybersecurity teams to move beyond reactive patching toward fundamentally safer software construction.<\/p>\n
That reality was the core of a Black Hat USA<\/a> keynote by David Weston (pictured), corporate vice president of AI security at Microsoft Corp., titled \u201cThe End of Rare: Defending When Offense Is Cheap.\u201d Weston explained that traditional defenses have long rested on the economics of scarcity\u2014expensive zero-days, strong security boundaries and the assumption that those walls would hold.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve baked this in,\u201d Weston said. \u201cWe said we\u2019re safe because this is rare and it costs a lot. Unfortunately, AI\u2019s changed this. It\u2019s no longer rare.\u201d<\/p>\n Weston spoke with Krista Case<\/a> at Black Hat USA<\/a>, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio. They discussed why security teams must invest AI-driven productivity gains into safer software construction, memory-safe languages and formal verification rather than trying to outpace attackers with faster patches. (* Disclosure below.)<\/p>\n Changing the physics of safer software construction<\/p>\n Simply accelerating patches is still a reactive strategy that leaves attackers a window, Weston noted. Attackers benefit from asymmetry\u2014they only have to be right once\u2014and from agility, since they face none of the compliance or process constraints that slow defenders.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat AI is doing is making everyone more productive, particularly engineers,\u201d Weston said. \u201cLet\u2019s invest that productivity in changing the physics.\u201d<\/p>\n That means prioritizing safety by construction, memory-safe languages such as Rust<\/a>, and formal methods that turn program logic into mathematical representations that can be proven free of certain failure classes. Google\u2019s results with Rust illustrate the potential. Roughly 75% of its vulnerabilities in 2019 were memory-safety issues. By 2025 that share had fallen below 20%, and across 5 million new lines of code written in safer languages, the company reported not a single new memory-safety issue.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re seeing two of the most important software libraries on the planet having good experiences here and using agents to get there,\u201d Weston said. \u201cThis is my call to action: everyone has to start experimenting with this in your codebase.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE\u2019s and theCUBE\u2019s coverage of Black Hat USA 2026<\/a>:<\/p>\n (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Black Hat USA. Sponsors of theCUBE\u2019s event coverage do not have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)<\/p>\n Photo: SiliconANGLE<\/p>\n Support our mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. 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