Every control we design as architects ultimately serves one of two questions. Who is allowed to do what — and is the data still protected ... Access control answers the first. Data protection answers the second. Together they form the innermost ring of a defense-in-depth architecture...
In the last post I gave you the tour — the foundational labs, the eight operational categories...So let's start where the whole discipline starts: Category 1, Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment.
In the last post, I jumped straight to the top of the spire — the AI Security Automation capstone. But a capstone, by definition, sits on top of something. You can't appreciate the spire if you've never seen the cathedral....
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