25% of organizations take between 8 and 30 days to apply critical patches.

73% of organizations take longer than 24 hours to apply critical patches.

41% of successful Canadian software buyers considered patching and update practices before purchase.

Patching and updating systems consumes 13.9% of Managed Service Provider (MSP) technician time.

30% of organizations surveyed believe that patching strategy for OT devices must be understood better to properly secure OT.

Critical patching for PCs running Windows 10 and 11 is delayed nearly two months on average across organisations.

Critical patching for PCs running Windows 10 and 11 is delayed nearly two months on average across organisations.