Definition
Using autonomous AI agents to automatically discover, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities at machine speed across entire codebases or infrastructure. Agents can patch code, regenerate dependencies, and apply fixes in parallel across repositories without manual triage.
Why it matters
Traditional vulnerability patching has become a bottleneck as AI-accelerated exploit discovery compresses the patch window; agentic remediation closes that gap by automating the entire cycle, letting organizations match the speed of attacker exploitation.