The AI-driven security freak-out is a time to see what if your platform engineering strategy is working. A good platform makes it possible - if not easy - to find and patch all these new CVEs. And, of course keep patching them.
A good platform will keep track of all these apps and dependencies deployed on the platform; be able to rebuild apps and services with minimal to no developer work; and be able to roll-out upgrades, rotate keys, and otherwise “seamlessly” deploy the patches. Plus all the reporting and audit stuff.
Check out Darin’s overview for more and how Tanzu Platform does it. An excerpt:
The security landscape just shifted under our feet – again. Over the last 18 months, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has compressed the timeline from novel CVE published to weaponized exploit in the wild from weeks down to hours. Researchers (and bad actors) are now using LLMs to chain together previously unrelated weaknesses into novel zero-day attack paths. The volume of disclosed vulnerabilities keeps climbing, and the half-life of “unpatched, but probably fine” is collapsing.
For platform engineers, this means the old rhythm of quarterly patch windows, hand-rolled CVE spreadsheets and “we’ll get to it after the next release,” is no longer a defensible posture. The only durable answer is the boring one: Rapidly apply first-party, vendor-supplied, vendor-supported security fixes across the entire estate before the chained exploit lands in your environment.
The problem isn’t whether to patch. It’s knowing what to patch, where it lives, and how to quickly roll it out without disrupting the business. With VMware Tanzu Platform 10.4, this can all be done across your entire Tanzu Platform foundation fleet, in a single workflow.
We also have some new advice for management types who are looking to develop and evolve their security strategy.
If you find out that you don’t have this all in hand, better TryTanzu.ai.