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No Priors · Friday, October 23, 2026

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht: Over 50% of Engineering Time to Be Spent on Security

Dane Knecht states that vulnerabilities reported in CVEs are increasing exponentially and expects that the majority of engineering teams' time will be spent on security over the next 18 months. He notes that keynote data indicates over 50% of engineering time is shifting toward security during this transition period.

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“Over the last, I would say, three to six months, just the number of vulnerabilities that are getting reported in CDEs has just gone up exponentially.”
Dane Knecht
“I expect that the rest of this year and in the next year, by the next 18 months, A majority of team's time is going to be spent on security.”
Dane Knecht
Heard on No Priors — “Democratizing Security for the Agentic Web with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht”, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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