Summary

The job of the Defender is a difficult one, because security and privacy as an afterthought creates both complexity and vulnerability. The complexity comes especially from security products needing to be customized in order to function in lockstep with the application whose data they are protecting. The larger and more complex the application to protect, the more you have to invest to configure and maintain the products that secure it. Vulnerabilities arise because between the application and the security products meant to protect it, there are seams—gaps in communication, coordination, and capability that occur naturally when two systems that are constantly evolving occupy two different infrastructure spaces. It is those seams that endlessly produce new exposure every day.

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