People on here act like someone decides not to patch.
Like there’s a guy who knows the service is vulnerable, knows it runs in prod, and just shrugs.
That’s maybe 1% of the cases.
The rest is messier:
- No idea the service exists (no inventory)
- No idea it’s vulnerable (no vuln reporting)
- Afraid to break stuff (downtime, legacy crap)
- No one owns it (silos, shadow IT)
- No time (small team, constant firefighting)
- Bad processes (manual patching, approvals, etc)
- Patching tools suck (yep, that too)
It’s rarely negligence.
It’s usually chaos.