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⚖️ Risk Mgmt

March 2026 Patch Cycle: The Governance and Risk Metrics That CISOs Should Be Reporting

March 2026 has been an unusually demanding patch cycle — 83 Microsoft CVEs, three new CISA KEV additions across F5, Citrix, and Active Directory, and concurrent exploitable vulnerabilities across Linux, PAN-OS, and Dell hardware. CISOs face board-level questions about patching velocity and exposure windows. This analysis provides the governance framework and risk metrics to answer those questions accurately.

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