Time to Exploit Went Negative. Your Code Was Never On the Clock.

The passage argues that the time between public vulnerability disclosure and confirmed exploitation has sharply declined from years in 2018 to an estimated average of 23 hours before disclosure in 2026, suggesting that conventional vulnerability prioritization and patch schedules cannot keep pace with modern exploit development. It cites additional threat-intelligence data and AI-assisted research examples to support the view that automated tools are accelerating discovery and exploitation, while remediation remains comparatively slow. It distinguishes widely distributed third-party software, which receives CVEs, advisories, scanner coverage, and coordinated response, from first-party applications, whose flaws often lack public identifiers or external detection mechanisms; the TalkTalk SQL injection breach is used to illustrate this gap. The passage contends that organizations are solely responsible for identifying and fixing vulnerabilities in their own code and proposes shifting remediation into the development process before code merges. It presents Wingman as a product intended to scan running applications, provide reproducible findings to coding agents, and verify fixes within pull requests.

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