5 Ways to Augment Security Risk Management in the AI Era
Red Hat, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Red Hat offers five approaches for correlating and triaging high-volume security alerts when vulnerabilities are exploited within hours.
IT operations and security teams receive thousands of alerts a day from vulnerability scanners, observability tools, Red Hat Lightspeed and other threat intelligence sources.
The challenge is identifying, correlating and acting on the impactful ones quickly, especially now that vulnerabilities can be exploited within hours of disclosure.
Red Hat cites IBM's X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026, which found that scanning for vulnerable software is a leading attack vector, second only to exploiting misconfigurations. The post sets out five ways to augment security risk management practice under those conditions.