New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- Companies will need to fundamentally overhaul their cybersecurity strategies and increase investments in automated threat detection and vulnerability management as frontier artificial intelligence (AI) makes it easier for cyberattackers to identify and exploit software weaknesses, according to a McKinsey report.

The firm warned that the shrinking time between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation could leave organisations increasingly exposed unless they adopt continuous security monitoring, faster remediation and stronger controls over AI-powered systems.

"Attackers are moving faster, with the average time between the disclosure of a critical vulnerability and active exploitation now just a matter of hou...