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Security is a design decision

The cheapest moment to make a system secure is before it exists. A short list of questions to ask at the whiteboard.

Cybersecurity4 min readBy Everline Engineering

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Security added at the end is a list of patches. Security considered at the start is a set of constraints that shape the design, and constraints are cheap when nothing has been built yet.

Who can do what, and how do we know?

Authorisation should be explicit, central and tested. If the rules live in scattered conditionals, they will drift.

What happens when this is breached?

Assume a component will be compromised and ask what the attacker can reach from there. Least privilege, separated secrets and audit logs turn an incident into a contained event.

Next step

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