Dark Reading: The Curious Case Of Unpatchable Vulnerabilities

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Verizon's annual breach investigations reports have consistently shown that fewer -- and in the most recent edition, only five of 381 -- attacks exploit vulnerabilities that could have been patched. Should companies re-evaluate their priorities?

Nov 08, 2011
By Robert Lemos

A fundamental component of most, if not all, IT security programs is the timely patching of vulnerabilities in critical systems.

Yet security experts are taking a new look at the strategy as data on breaches continues to show that very few attacks compromise systems using a vulnerability that could have been patched.

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