A security team got the alert at 2:47 a.m. By the time anyone read it, the window had already closed.

That is not a failure story. That is the design goal. The whole industry is building toward it.

The Zero-Day Clock, built by Sysdig CISO Sergej Epp from 3,500 confirmed CVE-exploit pairs, makes the math visible. In 2018, organizations had 771 days between a vulnerability’s disclosure and its first observed exploitation in the wild. By 2024, that window was four hours. The 1-day mark is already behind us. The 1-hour mark is projected for this year. One minute is projected for 2028.