Hackuity raises $19M to help security teams sort through AI-found vulnerabilities
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As AI scanners flood security teams with findings, Hackuity raising $19M to triage and prioritize is a bet that the bottleneck is human attention, not detection. If you're rolling out AI-based vuln discovery, budget for orchestration and deduplication tooling—or your mean time to fix will actually get worse.
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