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January 11, 2025
Stéphane Chapuis
Regular Updates: The #1 Cybersecurity Strategy to Eliminate Known Vulnerabilities
Regular updating of IT systems is the security practice of applying patches published by vendors as soon as they are available, in order to close known vulnerabilities before they are exploited. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2024, 32% of data breaches exploit vulnerabilities for which a patch already existed—making unapplied updates one of the most avoidable attack vectors.
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