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Defenders need more time to patch with the influx of patching hitting operations

Discover how Cisco Live Protect, virtual patching, and Secure Workload help defenders reduce vulnerability exposure while buying time for critical patches.
The velocity of vulnerabilities being discovered using Frontier AI and OpenWeight models such as Cisco Anteras is unprecedented and defenders need more time. All vendors are dealing with an influx of vulnerabilities and addressing them as soon as possible. On Oct 13 Microsoft released 1,411 patches of which 70 were critical flaws and 3 were zero days! It included 317 remote code executions flaws, 677 privileged escalation flaws,…
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