According to a 2023 study, companies worldwide take on average between 208 and 88 days to patch cyber vulnerabilities. In some cases, these vulnerabilities represent a critical threat to the company. On average, organizations fixed cyber vulnerabilities that were considered of high severity within 82 days. Low-severity vulnerabilities required almost 10 months and were the slowest to get fixed.
Average number of days organizations worldwide required to patch cyber security vulnerabilities from October 2022 to September 2023, by severity
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