Why bikes have brakes: A software development parable

This week on What and Why I dive a little deeper into one of last week’s core principles, be secure by default.?

In this edition, I stretch a bike-based metaphor like a piece of taffy to illustrate why it is important to think about the purpose and function of what you are building, why sometimes we build a set of functions working as a system instead of as unique, individual functions assembled iteratively, and what to do when your security system requires designing your product’s features differently to accommodate securing them.

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