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Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 31, 2026
“The exploit lands before the fix even ships,” says John Vecchi, CMO at Mitiga, a leader in zero-impact breach prevention for cloud, SaaS, identity and AI.
The mean time to exploit is now negative seven days, Vecchi tells Mitiga’s Field CISO Brian Contos on the latest episode of Mitiga Mic, a new series on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast. In 2018, defenders had about 63.
Vecchi and Contos get into what changed and what Mitiga’s place in Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program has to do with it. The CVP is like a background check for defenders. It lets vetted security teams use Claude’s full reasoning for the attacker-minded analysis the models block by default, while dangerous capabilities stay blocked for everyone, permanently.
“You can’t patch your way to safety fast enough now. The math doesn’t work,” says Contos.
Keep preventing. You still need that layer, but assume the attacker gets in, and start measuring yourself by blast radius instead of the perimeter. Or as Vecchi says, “the gap is the strategy.”
A new episode of Mitiga Mic airs every month on the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast.
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