Visa Rolls Out AI-Powered Cyber Vulnerability Patching for Clients

Visa is upgrading its cybersecurity tools to help partners automatically fix software weaknesses before hackers can exploit them. The new tool, called the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), uses generative AI to move beyond just finding problems. It now creates the necessary code patches to fix those issues and tests them to ensure they work correctly. This is a significant shift from traditional security tools that only alert IT teams to a problem without providing a solution. For retailers and financing providers, this technology helps shore up the entire payment ecosystem. As merchants increasingly rely on digital integrations for consumer financing and credit applications, they become bigger targets for data breaches. Visa’s tool aims to reduce the time it takes to secure these systems. While this is an enterprise-level tool for financial institutions and large processors, the ripple effect is a more stable and secure environment for the point-of-sale transactions you process every day. Using AI to handle the heavy lifting of coding fixes means your payment partners can react to new threats in hours rather than weeks, keeping your customers' financial data safer and reducing your indirect liability risks.

Source: PYMNTS

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