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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?

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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?

Kunal Modasiya from Qualys discusses challenges in patch deployment, including business pressure, concern over breaking changes, and revenue-critical system dependencies that delay fixes. He argues that effective remediation requires assessing risk comprehensively rather than pursuing speed alone, and emphasizes the significance of the window between exposure discovery and weaponization.

Why it matters: Security teams need to understand organizational barriers to timely patching and adopt risk-based prioritization to close the gap between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation.

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