The 90 day disclosure policy is dead

Talk by Himanshu Anand

The 90 day disclosure policy is dead. I am going to show you why, with real stories from the last few weeks. For over a decade, the security industry has run on a simple deal. A researcher finds a bug, tells the vendor, gives them 90 days to fix it and then goes public. That deal worked because finding bugs was hard and writing exploits was even harder. Both of those things are no longer true. LLMs have made it so easy that ten different people can find the same critical bug in six weeks, completely by accident. They have made it so fast that you can read a public patch and have a working exploit in 30 minutes. And in the last two weeks, the Linux kernel has been hit by two back to back critical bugs (Copy Fail and Dirty Frag) where exploits were public, in the wild and being used by nation state actors before most companies even saw the advisory. In this talk I will walk through three real stories from 2026, show the actual timelines and explain what every security team, vendor and researcher needs to change right now. The short version: if you are still waiting for the next maintenance window to patch a critical bug, you have already lost. I will share the new playbook for living in a world where the gap between "vulnerability exists" and "vulnerability is exploited" is shrinking to zero.

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