Overview

Vulnerability Management (VM) is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities.

This book explores the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) foundation models to the Software Vulnerability Management workflow, with a focus on Large Language Models (LLM)—a new class of neural network architecture developed by Google by improving Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies.

As the infrastructure of human activity, communication networks have become the backbone of our economy. Thus, protecting the flow of information and value against malevolent actors is an essential prerogative of software and network engineers.

But despite an exponential demand for security products and service, in an increasingly favorable regulatory environment, security professionals still only manage to capture a mere 10% of an estimated $2 trillion market opportunity.

The below-target adoption of security products and services suggest that we must collectively rethink the go-to-market strategy of the Vulnerability Management stack, the value proposition of its architectural components, and the nurturing of the security talents that enable security workflows to deliver on their objectives.

Otacon is a cybersecurity protocol that bridges the gap between cybersecurity demand and supply, by enabling anyone with a computer to become a Bug Bounty Hunter using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mechanism Design (MD).

After establishing the state of security research, and the size of the security problem humanity is facing, we describe how Otacon—a peer-to-peer security protocol—is a strong departure from traditional approaches to Vulnerability Management, that democratizes access to network, application, endpoint, data and asset security through Bug Bounty Hunting Artificial Intelligence (AI) agency and Bug Bounty crypto-economics that encourage global participation.

Keywords: Security, Software, Network, Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Bug Bounty, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Foundation Models, Large Language Model, LLM, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Smart Contracts