The Shrinking Exploit Window, Patch Schedule Changes, and the Vulnpocalypse

About this episode

The episode discusses the shrinking exploit window, changes in Cisco's patch schedule, and upcoming podcast episodes.

This week was blessedly free of any major supply chain compromises, so we start by talking about new research from Anthropic on the shrinking window between bug disclosure and exploitation, then we discuss the changing patch schedule for Cisco and how all of this is changing the prioritization process for security teams, and finally we discuss some upcoming episodes and our latest hacker movie podcast on The Conversation. Links Anthropic research: https://decipher.sc/2026/06/10/anthropic-warns-of-llms-impact-on-already-shrinking-n-day-exploit-gap/ Cisco patch change : https://blogs.cisco.com/security/strengthening-the-foundation-a-predictable-customer-focused-response-to-ai-accelerated-vulnerability-discovery The Vulnpocalypse : https://thevulnpocalypse.com/

People in this episode

Host: Decipher

Topics covered

• exploit window
• bug disclosure
• patch schedule
• security teams
• hacker movies

Keywords

• exploit window
• bug disclosure
• Cisco
• patch schedule
• security

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anthropic, Cisco

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