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Exposed and unfixed: the 2026 state of vulnerability remediation

300 security leaders told us how they fix vulnerabilities. Most of the answers were uncomfortable.
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The number of vulnerabilities being discovered has never been higher. AI systems like Claude Mythos are surfacing exposures that would have gone undetected for months or years, and attackers are using the same technology to build exploits in minutes. Yet for most organizations, the process of fixing those vulnerabilities hasn't kept up. This report surveyed 300 IT and security leaders to understand how vulnerability remediation works in practice today: who owns it, what slows it down, and why known vulnerabilities keep appearing in breach post-mortems long after they were first identified. The findings reveal a significant and growing gap between detection maturity and remediation maturity, one that affects organizations across every industry and company size. If your security team is responsible for turning vulnerability findings into closed risks, this report gives you the benchmark data to understand where the industry stands and where the biggest opportunities to improve are.
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Exposed and unfixed: the 2026 state of vulnerability remediation

Your team finds more vulnerabilities than ever. This report explains why so few of them get fixed.

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What customers are saying on Gartner

Unified vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation

"Vicarius streamlines vulnerability management between IT & Security by directly linking identified vulnerabilities to required patches, enhancing efficiency. The automation process has saved at least 30 percent of our manual tasks."
Wayne Ajimine
Wayne Ajimine
Information Security Professional

Single source of truth, capable of handling any application in our fleet

"vRx gives a single pane of glass to see what patches needed to go out and what sort of vulnerabilities we have on our Windows machines. Our meantime to remediate vulnerabilities has gone down by about 60% to 70%."
Peter Fallowfield
Peter Fallowfield
IT Manager

Merge Security & IT to Remediate Threats

“Vicarius’s vRx enabled Adama to centralize and consolidate work between IT and security teams, leading to a more efficient patching workflow."
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Oshri Cohen
Oshri Cohen
CISO

Great patching capabilities, helpful dashboard, and excellent support

"vRx has saved us an incredible amount of time. We can just rely on the automated system and the schedules we've set. It's a huge time saver. It's saved us hundreds of hours."
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Michael Cortez
Michael Cortez
Sr. Director of IT

My favorite feature is Patchless Protection

"With Vicarius' vRx, I've never seen a patch that failed or had to be rolled back. We're saving quite a bit of time. Our clients using vRx haven't had any issues, and they've easily established patching for all their endpoints. "
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Jeremy Herman
Jeremy Herman
Security Engineer

Patchless Protection is an incredible technology!

"vRx reduces the time customers spend on patching by reducing the overhead on the administrators, allowing them to do additional work. It saves time they would spend addressing the patching process, follow-ups, etc."
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Antwune Gray
Antwune Gray
VP IT Security and Services

60% faster remediation, many hours saved

"Typically, with our previous solution of ManageEngine, it took about three hours to patch Windows Server, and now, that is less than an hour. It means less downtime for the business each month when we do patches."
Anonymous Security Analyst
Anonymous Security Analyst
Security Analyst

Não espere até que o WSUS seja completamente descontinuado.

Não espere até que o WSUS seja completamente descontinuado. Agende uma demonstração e descubra como o vRx pode transformar sua estratégia de gerenciamento de patches.
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Billy Turner
Billy Turner
VP de Tecnologia e Serviços Gerenciados​

Third-party software patching is the most valuable feature.

"We have automated third-party patching on specific software, improving efficiency by 80%. vRx has reduced our patching time, which has improved our operations. It is more robust than other solutions because it offers better third-party remediation."
Billy Turner
Billy Turner
VP, Managed Technology & Services

Valuable resources saved

"Before vRx, we would spend countless hours manually finding and verifying patches. We saved so much time (and headache!)."
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