Patching vulnerabilities to avert future security breaches.

• A. Detection
• B. Traditional Endpoint Security
• C. Malware Dwell Time
• D. Prevention

Answer: (D)

Patching vulnerabilities to avert future security breaches is about prevention. By applying patches and updates, you fix known flaws in software and systems, close security gaps, and reduce the attack surface so attackers have fewer opportunities to exploit them. This proactive approach stops breaches before they start, rather than waiting to detect them after the fact or relying on general protections that don’t specifically close these weaknesses. Detection looks for breaches once they’ve begun, traditional endpoint security provides broad defenses but doesn’t guarantee vulnerability remediation, and malware dwell time measures how long a breach goes undetected. While those elements matter, patching is the direct method to prevent breaches from occurring.