The race most security programs are built around — patch faster than the attacker can exploit — was designed for a threat landscape that no longer exists. The data shows defenders are falling behind in the vast majority of cases. Across the most critical, actively weaponized vulnerabilities of the past four years, manual remediation processes failed to keep pace with attackers 88% of the time. Half were weaponized before a patch even existed. But the data also proves the inverse: 15% of organiza
