[SPECIAL FEATURE] How to deal with cybersecurity threats? – w.media

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Bret Cunningham, Chief Product Officer of Zimbra, an enterprise email platform, throws some light on how firms can respond to cybersecurity threats.

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model has helped identify more than 10,000 software vulnerabilities among its 50 partners, out of which over 60 per cent were classified as high or critical risks. How should cybersecurity and platform firms respond?

BC: Those findings tell us that the bottleneck has fundamentally shifted. For a long time, the hard part was finding vulnerabilities and AI has largely solved that. It can surface thousands of issues across dozens of systems faster than any human team ever could. The hard part now is what happens after discovery, and whether organizations can act on those vulnerabilities before someone else does.

That changes the conversation for platform firms considerably. If your remediation pipeline can’t keep pace with what your scans are surfacing, running more scans isn’t the answer, it’s just a faster way to grow your backlog. Speed is a real competitive differentiator here. Firms need to be genuinely disciplined about active maintenance, continuous patching cycles, and ongoing security education. Not as aspirational goals, but as operational realities.

A significant portion of the work is also architectural. This is where I think the industry undersells a practical truth: platforms built on open, well-vetted foundations are better positioned, not for ideological reasons, but because the math just works out differently. When source code is transparent and security communities can inspect it, the collective capacity to find and patch issues far exceeds what any single vendor can do behind closed doors. Community-driven scrutiny has always mattered. At the speed AI-assisted discovery now operates, it has become the only model that can realistically keep pace.

There’s one more piece that doesn’t get nearly enough attention: deployment friction. Vulnerabilities…

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