Bank of America expanded its security workforce in the second quarter by hiring 1,000 contractors to help patch software vulnerabilities. These contractors support 3,000 internal staff members fixing flaws in both proprietary systems and third-party vendor software. The vulnerabilities were exposed through advanced AI security models, including one called Mythos, which can identify weaknesses that traditional scanning might miss.
This hiring surge reflects how AI-driven security tools are forcing large financial institutions to rapidly scale their patch management operations. The scale of the contractor deployment underscores the gap between the speed at which AI can identify vulnerabilities and the capacity of internal teams to remediate them.
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