Over the past two years, high-profile exploits of legacy platforms have left critical systems wide open, forcing organisations to maintain and patch vulnerabilities rather than invest in more productive work. In Australia, over half of major outages are still security related*. The NIST National Vulnerability Database confirms that CVEs published as far back as 2018 remain actively exploited, many now marked as “Deferred” with no remediation coming from the vendor. For organisations locked into multi-year contracts, every renewal builds in not only higher costs but also compounding exposure.