# Whether Rising Vulnerabilities Will Cause a Cybersecurity Incident Crisis

DevFeed: [Whether Rising Vulnerabilities Will Cause a Cybersecurity Incident Crisis](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-coming-incident-crisis-39484.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.philvenables.com/post/a-coming-incident-crisis>)

Author: phil7672

Published: 2026-08-08T14:58:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Risk and Cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risk-and-cyber.md>)

Topics: [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>)

Tags: [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [risk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>), [zero-day](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zero-day.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines whether increasing software vulnerabilities will lead to more cybersecurity incidents. It argues that security breaches often result from ineffective controls rather than exceptionally capable attackers or sophisticated zero-day exploits, and that benchmarking should focus on control effectiveness instead of inputs such as budgets.

## Source excerpt

We're all talking about the tidal wave of vulnerabilities that is upon us, with repeated waves likely coming. As I've covered here, we can respond to this in various ways including ramping up speed across our entire defensive stack, which is as much about structural defense-in-depth than just faster patching. I've covered that here as well. But, there's a question as to whether the leading indicator of increasing vulnerabilities will in fact result in an increase in the lagging indicator of...