Signal Report expects documented vulnerabilities to exceed one million a year by 2030

Summary

Gartner expects the number of documented software vulnerabilities to exceed one million per year by 2030. The projection appears in its chapter on preemptive cybersecurity as a measure of the growing volume of threats. Gartner argues that AI-powered attacks on networks, applications and IoT systems are rising exponentially. At that scale, it suggests, detecting and responding after the fact becomes insufficient, which is why defences must anticipate and neutralise attacks in advance. The report gives no source, method or current baseline for the one million figure.