N-Day Is Now N-Hour: Why Your Patching Strategy Needs a DevSecOps Overhaul
The gap between a vulnerability being disclosed and being exploited in the wild has collapsed from months to hours. 'Patch faster' is the wrong answer — you will always lose that race. The right answer is patching the *right* things, automatically, through the pipeline you already have. A risk-based framework, the IaC patching backbone, and the patch SLA that survives an audit.