Quantifies the 'Gap of Inaction' between patch availability and breach, while identifying manual processes and organizational silos as primary drivers of supply chain risk.
A survey of 3,000 IT professionals reveals a critical gap in vulnerability response: 60% of data breaches occurred because a patch was available for a known vulnerability but not applied, and 62% of these organizations were unaware they were vulnerable prior to the breach. Organizations spend an average of $1.4 million annually on vulnerability management—an increase of over $280,000 in one year—yet only 44% use automation. The window for remediation is narrowing: the time between a patch release and a corresponding cyberattack has dropped to an average of 43 days. Patching is further delayed by organizational silos (adding a 12-day average delay), insufficient staffing (only 36% have adequate headcount), and the use of manual processes which 60% of respondents agree lead to insurmountable backlogs.
Organizations spend an average of 16 days to patch a critical vulnerability once detected, a window that is often exceeded by the speed of attacker exploitation.
exposure to known exploits during the critical post-disclosure window before remediation is finalized
the narrowing window between patch release and attack (43 days) makes internal patching velocity a critical metric for organizational survival.
CVSS scoring is often the only metric of patch prioritization, and leaves out asset criticality and systems as a part of vulnerability response.
Risk Guard provides technical scores but does not factor in the 'Business Criticality' of the systems where a package is deployed.
Risk Guard would be better if it allowed users to tag 'Crown Jewel' applications and weighted dependency risks higher for those specific assets.