The Executive's Playbook for The AI Threat Era

Learn why AI is compressing exploitation timelines and what security leaders can do about it.

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Source: 2026 Verizon DBIR

How HCL BigFix Works

A Near Real-Time Workflow For Reducing Exposure

Continuously identify, prioritize, and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers can capitalize.

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Detect

Identify vulnerable endpoints and security exposures across your environment.

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Prioritize

Focus on the vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited.

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Act

Patch, disable, reconfigure, quarantine, or remediate endpoints at scale.

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Prove

Demonstrate measurable risk reduction with board-ready reporting.

Continuous loop: every Act feeds the next Detect.

Why BigFix is Operationally Different

BigFix Closes the Endpoint Management Gaps That Mythos Opens

Zero-Day Remediation Without a Vendor Patch

Shut Down Exposure Before the Vendor Ships a Fix

Mythos-discovered zero-days move faster than vendor patch cycles. BigFix disables the vulnerable service, modifies the configuration, or quarantines the endpoint — at machine speed.

Custom Remediation — Build and deploy Fixlets in minutes, before a patch exists.

Autonomous Agent — Enforce, patch, and report without persistent connection.

120+ Operating Systems — Including air-gapped, OT, and legacy.

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Risk-Based Prioritization for AI-Driven Threats

Reduce the Noise Between Exposure and Action

Most platforms surface thousands of vulnerabilities. BigFix tells you which fixes close the most real-world risk first, mapped directly to what attackers are actually exploiting.

CISA KEV-aligned prioritization — identify vulnerabilities under active exploitation in your environment

APT-informed remediation — focus first on fixes tied to known adversary behavior

Risk-to-board reporting — translate technical exposure into operational metrics leadership understands

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Continuous Endpoint Compliance

Close the Configuration Drift Windows Scanners Leave Behind

Security posture changes constantly between scans. BigFix enforces controls directly at the endpoint and restores policy the moment drift occurs.

Autonomous Enforcement — Detect drift, restore controls, and log remediation without manual intervention.

Broad Framework Coverage — 50,000+ pre-built checks across CIS, DISA STIG, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIS2, DORA.

Audit-Ready Standards — SCAP 1.3 certified. NIAP validated. FIPS 140-2 compliant.

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Proven at Scale

Endpoint Management Built on Results

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endpoints under management worldwide

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faster remediation of known exploited vulnerabilities

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pre-built remediation fixes

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operating systems supported

Analyst Recognition

Recognized by Analysts. Trusted by Enterprises.

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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Endpoint Management Tools 2026

Recognized for enterprise-scale endpoint management and a broad ecosystem of integrations and partners.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide

Unified Endpoint Management Software 2025–2026

Recognized for automation, compliance, and operational efficiency across modern endpoint environments.

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Frequently Asked

Questions Buyers Ask Before a Briefing.

What is Project Mythos, and why does it matter for endpoint management?

Project Mythos is an Anthropic frontier-AI system that autonomously discovers software vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations at machine speed. It has been deployed across open-source code, compiled binaries, and automated red teaming. It demonstrated effective chaining of multiple vulnerabilities to form new attack patterns. For endpoint security, it matters because the window between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation is collapsing from weeks to hours. Endpoint management platforms that still operate on weekly or monthly patch cycles can no longer keep up. Mythos-class discovery means remediation has to happen on the same clock as detection, often before a vendor patch is even published.

What is Project Glasswing, and how is it different from Mythos?

Project Glasswing is the coordinated industry response to Mythos, a coalition of 120+ major technology organizations including Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, and the Linux Foundation. Glasswing gives these organizations restricted early access to Mythos findings so they can defensively scan their own codebases and patch vulnerabilities before adversaries develop equivalent AI capabilities. In short: Mythos is the discovery engine. Glasswing is the proactive remediation framework built around it. For enterprises, Glasswing reduces, but does not eliminate, the volume of zero-days that will hit your endpoints.

How does AI-driven vulnerability discovery change endpoint management?

AI-driven discovery changes endpoint management in three ways. First, vulnerability volume rises, there were 40,600 new CVEs reported in 2025 versus 17,000 in 2019, and frontier AI is accelerating that curve. Second, the exploitation window shrinks; the 2025 Verizon DBIR shows exploited vulnerabilities are now the #1 initial access vector, surpassing credential abuse. Third, attackers chain low-severity flaws together using AI, so traditional CVSS prioritization misses real risk. Endpoint management must shift from scheduled patching to continuous, threat-prioritized remediation that can act before vendor patches exist.

How does HCL BigFix help with zero-day vulnerabilities when no patch exists?

HCL BigFix provides proactive zero-day response through three capabilities the patch-only tools cannot match. Visibility: near-real-time search across thousands of endpoints to identify exposure by version, port, service, or file hash. Measurability: CyberFOCUS Analytics maps your exposure against CISA KEV and MITRE APT databases in real time, without additional scanning. Controllability: when no patch is available, BigFix can disable vulnerable Java class files, change port settings, modify registry keys, uninstall vulnerable applications, and change the configuration of affected endpoints, at scale, in minutes. This is the difference between waiting for a vendor and closing the attack surface immediately, thus buying you time and closing your vulnerability attack surface.

How is BigFix different from Tanium, Microsoft Intune, or Ivanti for Mythos-era endpoint security?

BigFix combines unique capabilities found no where else: threat intelligence driven analysis through CyberFOCUS Analytics, continuous, autonomous on-device security policy enforcement that operates in offline and air-gapped environments, native CVE-to-patch correlation from scanners including Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7, and automated board-level Protection Level Agreement reporting of exploitable vulnerability exposure time. All of these capabilities are unique to HCL BigFix. All of this is delivered through a single lightweight agent across 120+ operating systems with a 99.5%+ first-pass patch success rate, measured against an industry average closer to 70%.

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