Businesses are Taking Too Long to Fix Security Vulnerabilities
Picture this: you’re watching the evening news and hear that criminals are targeting homes in your neighbourhood. Would you leave your front door unlocked tonight? Probably not. Yet that’s exactly what many businesses are doing when they delay patching known vulnerabilities in their IT systems. And it’s more common than you might think.
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