UK cybersecurity agency warns of AI-driven “wave of patches”

The Chief Technology Officer of the UK’s National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) has urged organizations to address their technical debt, otherwise skilled staff will be able to exploit it at scale and with AI.

Because of AI, NCSC CTO Ollie Whitehouse says the government security agency is looking at a forced fix to address a backlog of technical issues that are expensive and time-consuming because short-term profits are prioritized over developing resilient products.

Whitehouse called it a “patch wave,” or a rush of software updates that need to be made…