Security by Default: The Crucial Complement to Secure by Design
Legacy cybersecurity systems – many designed over a decade ago – fail to account for the new breed of attacker capabilities and vulnerabilities – nor for the reliance on human configuration that is the Achilles heel of so much software. This new reality is being answered with the software development concept called security by default, a necessary complement to the principles of Secure by Design set forth by the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).