Security Patching Programs

Security patch management that closes the hole before attackers find it.

Most breaches exploit a vulnerability that's had a fix available for months. We run continuous patching โ€” automated scans, dependency audits, fast security hotfixes โ€” so the gap between disclosure and protection closes in hours, not quarters.

  • Critical CVEs in hours
  • Zero-downtime patching
  • SOC 2 / ISO audit-ready
9 hrs

To patch a critical CVE

0

Unpatched high-risk CVEs

Zero

Downtime from patching

100%

Patches logged for audit

Why patch continuously

Most breaches exploit a fix that already existed

The vulnerability isn't usually the failure โ€” the months it sat unpatched is. We make patching fast, safe, and constant so that window never opens.

Always scanning

Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, and SonarQube run in your pipeline and at runtime, so new vulnerabilities surface the day they're disclosed โ€” not at the next pentest.

Patched in hours

Critical, exploited CVEs go from disclosure to deployed fix in hours after a staging check โ€” closing the window attackers count on staying open.

Zero-downtime deploys

Rolling and blue-green deployments apply app, dependency, and OS patches without an outage, so patching often is painless instead of dreaded.

Audit-ready by default

Every patch is logged with severity, timing, and verification โ€” the exact evidence SOC 2 and ISO 27001 vulnerability-management controls ask for.

What you walk away with

Protection plus proof

A patching program has to satisfy both your attackers and your auditors. You get the fixes and the evidence trail in one.

  • Automated scanner integration across CI/CD and runtime
  • Severity-ranked vulnerability queue with patch SLAs
  • Applied security hotfixes and dependency upgrades
  • Zero-downtime deployment pipeline for patches
  • Audit-ready patch and compliance logs
  • Monthly vulnerability posture report

From scan to review

How the program runs

  1. 1

    Audit & integrate scanners

    We baseline current vulnerabilities and wire scanning into your pipeline and runtime so nothing new slips through unseen.

  2. 2

    Prioritize by severity

    Findings are triaged into one queue, with critical and exploited issues escalated against agreed patch SLAs.

  3. 3

    Patch & verify

    Fixes are tested in staging, then deployed with rolling or blue-green releases โ€” no user-facing downtime.

  4. 4

    Log & review

    Every patch is recorded for audit, and a monthly report tracks time-to-patch and remaining exposure.

Patching, in production

Lumen Health: a 94-day patch lag cut to 9 hours

A health-tech company carried dozens of open vulnerabilities and a SOC 2 audit it kept failing on vulnerability management. We stood up a continuous patching program.

Lumen Health

Healthcare software ยท USA

HealthTech ยท SaaS
Time to patch critical CVEs250ร— faster
Before
~94 days
After
9 hours
Unpatched high-risk vulnerabilitieszero backlog
Before
37 open
After
0 open
SOC 2 vulnerability controlsaudit cleared
Before
failing
After
passed
9 hrs

Critical patch time (was 94 days)

0

Open high-risk CVEs

SOC 2

Audit passed

0

Patch-related outages

โ€œWe were failing the vulnerability-management section of SOC 2 every cycle and carrying a backlog nobody had time for. pyronix automated the whole pipeline โ€” critical patches now ship same-day, and we walked into the next audit with a clean log.โ€
โ€” VP Engineering, Lumen Health
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Straight answers

Security patching questions

What is a security patching program?

A security patching program is the continuous process of finding and fixing vulnerabilities in your application, its dependencies, and its infrastructure โ€” through automated scanning, prioritization by severity, and fast deployment of patches. The goal is to close the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and your system being protected, measured in hours rather than months.

How quickly are critical security patches applied?

Critical, actively-exploited vulnerabilities are patched and deployed to production within hours of a fix being available, after a staging verification run. Lower-severity issues are batched into scheduled windows. The exact response times by severity are agreed up front and tracked, so 'fast' is a measured commitment, not a vague promise.

Will patching cause downtime?

No. We use rolling updates, container orchestration, and blue-green deployments to apply application, dependency, and OS-level patches with zero user-facing downtime. Patching frequently and safely is exactly what keeps you off the emergency-maintenance treadmill.

Which vulnerability scanners do you use?

We integrate tools like Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot, and SonarQube directly into your CI/CD pipelines so vulnerabilities are caught at build time, plus runtime and container scanning for what's already deployed. Findings flow into one prioritized queue instead of scattered, ignorable alerts.

Does a patching program help with SOC 2 or ISO compliance?

Yes. Continuous scanning, documented patch SLAs, and audit-ready logs of what was patched and when directly satisfy the vulnerability-management controls in SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks. We produce the compliance evidence as a by-product of doing the work.

Close the window before it's exploited.

Give us your stack and your compliance targets. We'll wire in scanning, set patch SLAs by severity, and turn a months-long lag into a same-day, audit-logged fix.

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