The Cheapest Way to Protect Data Is to Not Keep It
The safest record is the one you never collected. Data minimization treats retention as liability, not free storage, and builds deletion in as a default.
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The safest record is the one you never collected. Data minimization treats retention as liability, not free storage, and builds deletion in as a default.
Give people a felt safety margin and many of them spend it. Risk compensation shows up in ABS brakes, MFA, and backup tools alike. The fix is to build so protection is invisible and cannot be traded away.
A newly exposed cloud server gets its first probe in about 52 seconds. Small website attacks are automated and constant, not a big-company problem. Secure-by-construction absorbs the baseline.
A commercial kitchen stays safe by how it is built and run, not by a final inspection. That is secure by construction, and it is the same instinct behind good engineering: design the hazard out before it can happen.