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CISA issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities within accelerated timeframes, including a three-day deadline for critical flaws. The directive supersedes older BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01. Agencies must update vulnerability management policies within 60 days.
Adversaries now use LLM disassemblers to reverse-engineer patches and develop exploits within a day of publication, down from four days five months ago. James Blake of Cohesity warns that most organizations cannot patch that fast, and protection tools like EDR are routinely evaded.
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