First Defensive Layer: Failure to Plan = Plan to Fail

In security, this familiar maxim holds very true: “If you fail to plan, you had better plan to fail.” Thinking about the defenses against potential attacks ought to begin early in your implementation projects. Both methods are the types of things that can be incorporated relatively inexpensively and with little effort if they are employed from the start. The costs and effort to adopt these principles will increase the further along you progress in your project. Trying to achieve this once your system is in production will probably involve ripping out significant parts of your code or infrastructure and replacing it with something new. While it may be necessary, it certainly will not be as ...

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