Patch Management Strategies: Prioritizing remediation in large enterprises — June 28, 2026

Published 28 Jun 2026 · vulnerability, patch, cve, vulnerability management, cybersecurity news

AGMP Partners The Current State of Patch Management Strategies in Late 2025 As we approach the latter half of 2026, the landscape for patch management has evolved significantly from the reactive, calendar-driven exercises of a few years ago. Supply chain attacks have become a more pronounced and sophisticated vector, exemplified by incidents targeting CI/CD pipelines and software repositories. We're seeing an increasing frequency of zero-day exploits being chained with N-day vulnerabilities, where the 0-day acts as an initial access vector, and then known, unpatched flaws are leveraged for lateral movement and persistence. Furthermore, the convergence of IT and OT environments means that an unpatched PLC can now provide a pivot point into a corporate network, a scenario that was once considered niche. Cloud infrastructure, with its transient workloads and microservices architecture, pres