The 29-minute Breakout: Why monthly vulnerability scanning no longer works
TLDR: We attended Cyber Security 2026: Kritisk infrastruktur in Stockholm, and the reality check was simple: “breakout time” has hit a record low of 29 minutes. If you’re still scanning monthly, you’re defending a version of your infrastructure that doesn’t exist anymore. The time it takes for an attacker to move after a breach has dropped to just 29 minutes. In 2021, we talked about a “breakout time” of 100 minutes. Today?