Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends

Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of Continuous Security Validation report found that 95% of surveyed organizations identified high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities outside planned testing windows during the past year, with 42% encountering them at least once a month. How often high/critical vulns are found outside testing windows (past 12 mo.) (Source: Synack)