Once a year, companies perform the sacred dance of the penetration test, obtaining the coveted scroll of compliance as evidence of their good deeds. For the rest of the year, they pray fervently to the cyber gods that no misfortune will befall them from their own freshly launched software updates.

Imagine the surprise when, inevitably, an overlooked vulnerability turns your company’s network into an all-you-can-hack buffet. The attackers, who missed the memo that compliance is infallible, waltz in and help themselves to the sensitive data spread without so much as a polite knock.

It’s a time-honored tradition: check the compliance box, deploy the update, then wish upon a star that security flaws are like tree-falls in forests. Oh, the artistry of assumption—if only phishing emails could be so easily ignored!