8 hours ago
Patching - The Boring Control That Stops Most Breaches, and Why It Still Does Not Happen
Around 60% of breaches exploit a vulnerability that already had a patch. The gap is not knowledge, it is deployment, and it stays open because patching genuinely breaks things, there are too many patches, CVSS points at the wrong ones, and nobody owns the forgotten systems. The way through: prioritize by what is actually being exploited (the CISA KEV catalog, not raw severity), tier your response by exposure, automate the boring low-risk majority, and know what you run, because you cannot patch what you forgot you own.