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What changes: the maths.
More vulnerabilities, found faster. SANS projects the published-CVE count climbing from 48,000 last year toward the millions by 2028. NIST no longer enriches every CVE, so the flood arrives with less triage attached: more volume, and more noise. Mean time to exploit has fallen from 2.3 years to a matter of days, and for nearly three quarters of 2026's exploited CVEs the exploit lands on or before disclosure. For most of them, the patch window is already gone.
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Where it breaks today.
Security finds the vulnerabilities. IT fixes them, and IT already has a day job. The old model, export the scan to a spreadsheet and lob it over the fence, was creaking before Mythos. Multiply it by fifty and it stops working. In our own field data, manually patched servers carry four to ten times more open vulnerabilities than automated ones, and they are usually the servers someone judged too important to touch. Your most critical systems end up carrying your worst patch debt.
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What doesn't: the method.
None of this calls for a new category of tool. The actions that resolve a vulnerability are the same as last year. They simply have to run reliably, automatically, and at a cadence measured in days.
Know the whole estate
You cannot fix what you cannot see. Most estates hide a third of their assets from the CMDB.
Reliable patching
OS and third-party, automated end to end, and verified onto every box. Approved is not installed.
Reliable mitigation
A compensating control for whatever you cannot patch inside the window.
Risk-based prioritisation
Rank what is left on real exposure, not a raw CVSS score.
Defence in depth
Segmentation, least privilege and zero trust: the architectural backstop when a control fails.
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What we do: automate the pipeline.
Stop treating vulnerability management as a flat list of CVEs to chase. Treat it as a pipeline, and make almost everything leave through automation long before it reaches a person. Be aggressive at the top, and the dangerous tip at the bottom shrinks to something a human team can actually own.
Asset inventory
Find what you have. Everything downstream depends on it.
Automated patching
OS and third-party, end to end. The default path.
Manual patching by exception
Each one reviewed to be automated next cycle.
Vuln management
Surfaces what slipped through, feeds it back up.
Zero-day response
Mostly prevented upstream. Automated mitigation when not.
We are UK-based engineers who run vulnerability and patch management for a living. Running it across a stack of separate tools is slow and expensive. It belongs on one platform that does discovery, patching, mitigation and prioritisation in one place. That platform is Tanium, and we deploy it and run it for you.
Professional services
Stand the platform up to best practice, integrate your SIEM and ITSM, train your team, hand it back.
Retainer
A few days a month as an extension of your team.
Managed services
We own the outcome: OS and third-party patching and vulnerability management, against real SLAs.
Support
A UK-based desk and engineering SMEs behind all of it.