The Cyber Savanna: A Rigged Race You Can't Win, but Must Run Anyway

This commentary argues that organizational complacency—not attacker sophistication—is the primary driver of many breaches, criticizing ineffective implementations of shift-left security and chronic failure to patch known vulnerabilities; it cites industry statistics about widespread unpatched Common Vulnerabilities and urges organizations to prioritize and automate remediation of exploitable, high-impact flaws while fostering developer-security collaboration to improve resilience.