The Day the Patch Window Died: Reducing Hypervisor Risk in the AI Era 

2025 delivered more than 48,000 CVEs, enhanced by leveraging AI. 32% of these were leveraged in attacks before they could even be assigned a CVE number; the median disclosure-to-exploit window has collapsed to just 10 hours. As AI accelerates both vulnerability discovery and attack execution, security teams are facing a growing challenge: protecting critical infrastructure faster than they can patch it. 

The challenge is especially acute at the hypervisor layer, where a single compromise can impact dozens or hundreds of workloads and remediation often requires testing, approvals, maintenance windows, and operational coordination. Meanwhile, attackers are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities, malicious AI, and compromised credentials to reach virtualization infrastructure before organizations can fully respond. 

This session explores how rising CVE volume, shrinking disclosure-to-exploitation timelines, and AI-driven attacks are reshaping hypervisor security. Attendees will learn why patching has become increasingly insufficient on its own and how runtime security can reduce risk during the critical window between vulnerability disclosure and remediation.