Security by design is one of those concepts that happily goes hand in hand with resilience. Candidly, they were made for each other. The security by design methodology helps minimize some of the inherent risk we cannot do anything about.
Building on a Tectonic Plate
Consider for a moment you absolutely had to construct something — say, a building — on a foundation that is inherently vulnerable. There are no other areas to build on (at least not yet). How would you go about that?
Chances are you would take a more cautious approach, build incrementally and test along the way. You would likely add in some redundancies, just to be safe, correct? You would also think about the entire life cycle of the building. You’d try to determine how many good years you could get out of it knowing it is on shaky ground. You’d want to know what type of maintenance would be required.
Quite reasonably, you would examine your technical processes to make sure you have good project management in place, a risk matrix and decision-making process and a way to keep track of quality all before you started to build. And knowing that you are building on something inherently vulnerable, you would also have a plan for how to bring down the building safely and dispose of all materials just in case it becomes too risky to keep up.
Finally, you wouldn’t want people to enter that building unless a bunch of safety checks were performed.
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