The Unpatched Gap: Architecting Survival for the “Double EOL” Reality
he 90-Day Cliff. Visualizing the massive security gap between the October 2025 EOL cutoffs and the first zero-day exploits of 2026. It is January 2026. The grace period is over. Last October, the industry hit a “Double EOL” cliff that many architects chose to ignore. Windows 10 support ended. VMware vSphere 7.x support ended. If…