# Why risk acceptance isn't a viable option, with Jaya Baloo

DevFeed: [Why risk acceptance isn't a viable option, with Jaya Baloo](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-risk-acceptance-isn-t-a-viable-option-with-jaya-baloo-1975.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://1password.com/blog/why-risk-acceptance-isnt-a-viable-option-with-jaya-baloo>)

Author: info@1password.com (Dave Lewis)

Published: 2026-06-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog on 1Password Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-on-1password-blog.md>)

Topics: [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [vulnerability management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerability-management.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Open Source Models & Datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy-and-abuse-prevention.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [podcasts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcasts.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>), [vulnerability-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerability-management.md>)

## AI overview

This podcast episode discusses the risks and hype surrounding AI-powered vulnerability discovery. Jaya Baloo argues that security teams should address existing weaknesses such as poor asset visibility, remediation backlogs, inconsistent logging, and weak operational practices, while also considering how smaller open-source models and effective orchestration can uncover vulnerabilities that larger systems miss.

## Source excerpt

Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts null Listen now Listen to this episode on Spotify null Listen now Anyone who thinks security leaders are humorless sticklers for the rules has never spent half an hour with Jaya Baloo. But in this episode of Chasing Entropy, Dave Lewis does just that, and the result is a frank and irreverent conversation that proves that security may be serious business, but it's still a fun job. Baloo is the co-founder and COO/CISO of Aisle, an AI-powered vulnerability management startup with the bold goal of "zero exploitable vulnerabilities." Baloo's career has spanned telecom, cryptography, enterprise security, and AI-driven security research, but her love of computers started when she got her first computer (a Commodore 64) at age 9. The conversation tracks her journey from early BBS war dialing and CompuServe stories to the modern challenge of defending organizations against increasingly autonomous systems. A major focus of the episode is the growing hype around AI-powered vulnerability discovery. Baloo acknowledges the seriousness of the threat, saying "It introduces this asymmetry in terms of attacker-defender advantage, where the advantage would strongly go to the attacker if they're capable of finding new and novel vulnerabilities, and the ability to exploit them, and potentially doing this at scale, autonomously." However, she cautions that fear of a Mythos-level model shouldn't leave security leaders feeling too overwhelmed to take action. "We have elevated this to a level of hype that is not that beneficial to actually doing something about the problem." Instead of panicking about the unknown, Baloo advises security to start by addressing the problems they are aware of. Organizations already struggle with asset visibility, remediation backlogs, inconsistent logging, and weak operational hygiene. AI may have increased the blast radius of these risks, but they existed long before LLMs. The discussion also explores how smaller, open