IBM and Red Hat moved Project Lightwell from concept to commercial availability in weeks, with the initiative announced on May 28 and launched commercially on July 8, reflecting how quickly frontier AI risks are reshaping enterprise security priorities. Brian Gracely, Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy at Red Hat, said the service has moved very quickly and received market input on content handling and embargoes. Gracely noted that attackers view AI as making their work easier and faster, and that enterprises must recognize AI has changed the operating environment regardless of readiness. He highlighted that many organizations take “40 days, 50 days, 90 days” to deploy patches, while the volume and velocity of vulnerabilities are growing due to AI tools, creating a bottleneck where customers cannot get fixes into their systems fast enough, leaving them with the same vulnerabilities.