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Three critical vulnerabilities in the same email server product in fourteen days, each crossing a different trust boundary. A federal directive mandates decommissioning devices already under active exploitation. A platform discloses a breach days after the data appears on a criminal forum. A hypervisor escape chain built for espionage is confirmed in ransomware campaigns eleven months after the patch.
Governance arrived after exploitation completed. In every case.
When control instruments arrive after adversaries have already validated the gap, governance starts to look less like prevention and more like record.
AUDIENCE_SCOPE: CISO_ONLY
VERDICT_MODE: INSTITUTIONAL_FRAME
PRESSURE_CLASS: SINGULAR
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