# Accelerated patching and remediation

Exploits now arrive hours after a patch is published. Knowing what to patch is no longer the hard part. The hard part is everything between the advisory and the change: the exact command, the rollout order, the test plan, the rollback.

We build all of it, for every affected system, so the only thing left for your team is to review it and press enter.

## Everything up to the enter key

-   The exact change, generated for your environment: the patch command, configuration change or pull request.
-   A rollout plan: which systems go first, in what order and in which window.
-   A test plan that proves the patch works and nothing else broke.
-   A rollback, prepared before anyone needs it.

## How it works

We build and prepare everything along the way. A person always makes the final call before anything moves on.

1.  ### Know what you run
    
    One trustworthy inventory with owners, so every advisory maps to real systems in minutes.
    
2.  ### Prepare the change
    
    For each affected system: the patch command or pull request, the rollout order and the rollback.
    
3.  ### Prove it is safe
    
    The test plan runs against staging or a canary group before anything wider moves.
    
4.  Human checkpoint
    
    ### You press enter
    
    A person reviews the prepared change and approves it. Nothing ships without that.
    
5.  ### Verify it landed
    
    Rescans and version checks confirm every system is fixed. Anything that failed comes straight back.
    

## What we build

-   ### Advisory to exposure
    
    Vendor bulletins, Patch Tuesday, CISA KEV and scanner output are matched against the assets, packages, containers and endpoints you actually run.
    
-   ### Asset truth first
    
    You cannot patch what you cannot find. We reconcile CMDB, EDR, cloud, identity and scanner data into one inventory and let agents investigate the gaps.
    
-   ### Owner routing
    
    Each prepared change goes to the team that owns the system, with the affected hosts, test steps and deadline already written.
    
-   ### Patch pull requests
    
    For dependencies, base images, infrastructure as code and CI workflows, agents open the remediation pull request directly with test results and rollback notes.
    
-   ### Rollout and blockers
    
    Endpoint and server rollouts are tracked through your MDM and deployment tools, with blockers such as unsupported systems, missing owners or failed tests surfaced early.
    
-   ### Verified closure
    
    A fix counts when a rescan, deployed version check or EDR state proves it. Leadership gets a short summary of what is exposed, patched and blocked.
    

## How it comes together

1.  01
    
    ### Map
    
    Connect your scanners, inventory, ticketing and deployment tools, and measure your current time to remediate.
    
2.  02
    
    ### Build
    
    Stand up the remediation pipeline in your environment, starting with the systems that carry the most risk.
    
3.  03
    
    ### Run
    
    Hand it over with runbooks, or let us operate it through each patch cycle.
    

## What you get

-   Changes ready to approve, not tickets to investigate
-   An inventory your security team trusts
-   A tested rollback for every change
-   Proof that each fix actually landed

Further reading: [Anthropic research on how AI shortens the path from patch to exploit](https://red.anthropic.com/2026/n-days/)

## Often paired with

-   [Forward-Deployed Security Engineering](/services/forward-deployed-security-engineering)
-   [Agentic Penetration Testing](/services/penetration-testing)
-   [Secure Infrastructure](/services/secure-infrastructure)

## Tell us what's stuck.

If we can materially improve the outcome, we'll come back with a concrete first step. On-site in Toronto or remote.

[Start a conversation](/contact)

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Source: https://shadesec.com/services/accelerated-patching