NCSC’s Ollie Whitehouse on surviving the "bugpocalypse"
From Risky Business Features by Risky Business Media
May 18, 2026 · 29 min
About this episode
Ollie Whitehouse discusses the challenges organizations face in cybersecurity amidst the AI 'bugpocalypse'.
In this edition of Risky Business Features Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to talk about why “patch faster” will only get organisations so far in the face of the AI “bugpocalypse”. As Ollie explains, organisations will need to reduce internet-facing attack surface and make better architecture decisions as 0day discovery speeds up. This episode is also available on YouTube.
People in this episode
Hosts: Patrick Gray, James Wilson
Guest: Ollie Whitehouse
Topics covered
- cybersecurity
- AI
- vulnerability management
- patching
- internet security
- architecture decisions
Keywords
- bugpocalypse
- patching
- 0day
- attack surface
- cybersecurity
- AI
- vulnerabilities
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: UK’s National Cyber Security Centre
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