Architecting for security
As technology has advanced, the solutions we build have become more powerful, flexible, and complex. Our applications' flexibility and dynamic nature enable a business to leverage data and intelligence at a level previously unknown. The cloud is often touted by many vendors as having near unlimited capacity and processing power that is accessible by anyone.
But power comes at a cost, because it's not just businesses who wish to leverage the potential of the cloud—hackers also have access to that tooling. Therefore, the architect of any system must keep security at the core of any design they produce.
Knowing the enemy
The first step in ensuring security is to understand the hacker mindset or, at the very least, to think about what they wish to accomplish—why do hackers hack?
Of course, there are lots of reasons, but we'll state the obvious one—because they can! Some people see hacking a system as a challenge. Because...
