Following the Mythos announcement in April 2026, organizations using AI to identify software vulnerabilities have contributed to a significant rise in newly discovered CVEs and CVE definitions. This shift reflects a broader trend across the industry: AI is helping uncover vulnerabilities faster than ever before — and security teams need the visibility, control, and speed to respond.
At Tanium, we've been tracking this trend closely across customer environments. Before mid-June 2026, daily vulnerability findings identified through Tanium Exposure Management typically ranged between 10 and 40 billion across all customers. Beginning in mid-June, that number surged, reaching as high as 101 billion daily.
This tracks closely with the recent pace of Microsoft CVEs: June's Patch Tuesday included 220 CVEs, July jumped to 663, and August's Patch Tuesday is already at 421.* This is a clear sign that the volume of newly disclosed vulnerabilities is driving the spike in findings we're seeing across customer environments.
Chart 1 - Daily Vulnerability Findings Identified from Tanium Exposure Management
This surge highlights an important reality for security and IT operations teams: vulnerability management is no longer just about identifying risk. It's about acting on it quickly, confidently, and at scale.
The good news: at Tanium, we're already seeing these numbers decline after they peak for our customers. This is a strong sign that with Tanium Atlas, our customers don't just see vulnerabilities, they prioritize and autonomously remediate, powered by real-time endpoint data. But there's still more work to do. Patch Tuesday arrives every month, reinforcing the need for continuous visibility and rapid response across every endpoint. In a post-Mythos world, shrinking the window between discovery and remediation is what matters most.
With Tanium, organizations get comprehensive visibility across internal and external assets, attacker-centric prioritization that maps high-impact choke points, and the ability to act quickly from a single platform. We combine real-time endpoint intelligence with autonomous remediation, rather than coordinating across multiple tools, to reduce exposure before attackers can take advantage.
Another Patch Tuesday down. Don't let your endpoints fall behind.
*Source: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/