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Billion-Dollar Companies Twice as Likely to Leave Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched

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Billion-Dollar Companies Twice as Likely to Leave Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched

Chainguard research found that billion-dollar companies are twice as likely to leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched compared to smaller organizations. The study attributes this gap to business priorities and concerns about operational disruption from patching activities.

Why it matters: Security practitioners at large enterprises need to review patch management processes and stakeholder prioritization, since organizational size correlates with delayed remediation of critical exposures.

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