The Wake-Up Call: Your Vulnerability Backlog Is the Real Threat
We picture cyber attacks as stealthy intruders breaching the perimeter. But after two decades in infosec, I can tell you the most dangerous threat is already inside — your vulnerability backlog.
“Most breaches don’t come from the one exploit nobody knows about. They come from the ones everyone knows about — but nobody has patched.”
A major South African statutory public entity survived ransomware in 2021. Emergency response stabilised things, but the underlying estate was still wide open. Our initial scan found 109,905 vulnerabilities across 2,530 endpoints. Every single one was a door an attacker could walk through.
If you haven’t run a full vulnerability assessment in the last 90 days, you’re flying blind.
This is part of the Secure & Patched thought leadership series. View the full campaign.