A patch only reduces risk when it runs in production

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The patch was ready in days. It took months to ship. Why?I hear that question in nearly every customer conversation about vulnerability management. The honest answer is rarely “We didn’t know about it.” It’s “We knew, but getting it into production took longer than the exploit window.”That delay, the time between a patch’s release and it actually running in production across every exposed…

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