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Automated vulnerability scanning with severity gates in CI, and a monthly currency habit — the dangerous estate is the one that's five majors behind when the critical CVE lands.

A dependency-incident runbook (identify exposure, patch or mitigate, verify) — supply-chain events reward the inventoried and punish the surprised.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.