The Real Jump Scare Isn’t the Attacker; It’s The Vulnerabilities You’re Focusing On
Source: Qualys Blog
At a glance
Key Takeaways Teams are remediating more than ever, but exposure from the vulnerabilities that matter is still rising faster than they can keep up with. Mean time to exploitation is about −7 days. Mean time to remediate sits around +30 days. Qualys research: closures rose from 73M (2022) to 473M (2025) – 6× – while critical findings still open at day seven rose from 56% to 63%. Less than 1% of vulnerabilities are actively exploited. A volume-and-CVSS program spends most of its effort on the rest. 15% of organizations that operationalized the pipeline patched before a vulnerability…