Cyber & Technology
Identity-first access, secure software supply chain, and lifecycle patching. Aim for quiet reliability.
Healthy uses
- Least privilege and short-lived credentials.
- Signed artifacts and provenance.
- Routine patching with staged rollouts.
Risks to avoid
- Hard-coded secrets; shared admin accounts.
- Unsigned containers and opaque dependencies.
- Alert floods without triage.
Controls & guardrails
- OIDC everywhere; PAM for break-glass.
- SBOM + signing (Sigstore), dependency scanning.
- Tiered environments and change windows.
- SIEM/SOAR with tuned playbooks.
Signals & metrics
- Mean-time-to-revoke
- Patch latency
- High-severity alert volume
Tech hooks
Security (Zero Trust, SBOM), DevOps (CI/CD, IaC), Observability (trace IDs), Identity (SSO/MFA).
Related playbooks
Point A → Point B, Fast
Architecture Sprint (1–2 weeks): Current → Target → 1–90-day plan. D1 maps, D2 target, D3 plan, D4 exec brief.