Microsoft Will Ship More Security Fixes Thanks to AI

Microsoft has announced that upcoming Patch Tuesdays for Windows 11 are going to get bigger. According to a company blog post published Thursday, artificial intelligence is now being used to find problems in code, helping to “surface potential issues earlier.”

According to Microsoft, this means users will see a larger number of security fixes in each monthly update. In other words, AI makes it possible to catch vulnerabilities that previously might have gone unnoticed until the next release.

The company also notes a rise in activity from malicious actors who are using artificial intelligence to find and exploit vulnerabilities. What's more, as the post stresses, even amateur hackers without deep technical expertise are increasingly turning to such tools.

So Microsoft views the use of AI from two angles at once: as a means of defense that speeds up the discovery of problems within the company, and as a risk factor, since the same technologies make it easier to attack Windows users.

The growing number of patches within Patch Tuesday can be seen as a sign that automated, AI-assisted code analysis is becoming an integral part of developing major software products. For users and system administrators, this may mean a need to plan update installations more carefully, since their size will only grow.

Source: The Verge