Technical design

“Successful architecture needs both structure and agility. You need just enough structure to where that structure is useful, but anything beyond that is bad. The way I started thinking about security controls and applying them to the rest of the organization is through the lens of healthy friction versus unhealthy friction. Healthy friction is friction that makes the developer or IT person pause, ask, and genuinely answer a critical thinking question such as ‘should I be doing this differently?’ or ‘can I do this better?’ By contrast, if you get to the point where the security measures are onerous – for example, by adding thousands of false positives to a developer’s queue or adding repetitive tasks to a user workflow – it becomes unhealthy friction. I view architecture the same way; introducing a process that makes people ask the right questions, talk to the right people, or do the right things is good. Adding...