Patch or perish: How organizations can master vulnerability management

This report highlights the accelerating threat of vulnerability exploitation—driven by record CVE volumes, reduced time-to-exploit, zero-day prevalence, and increased targeting of perimeter products—while noting compounding challenges like complex environments, patch quality gaps, and NVD delays. It advocates a risk-based, automated vulnerability and patch management approach with prioritized remediation, detailed reporting, and flexible deployment, augmented by advanced threat detection, microsegmentation, zero-trust access, network monitoring, and security awareness to mitigate both known and emerging threats.