Security by design: stop patching holes you dug yourself

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most of the “security problems” you end up patching at 3 a.m. aren’t accidents.

They’re decisions made months earlier under pressure, over a cup of coffee, with the unshakeable conviction that “we’ll fix it later.”

Security by design is exactly about that: building security into the development cycle from the start, instead of relying on the holy trinity of scanner + pentest + blind faith.

Let’s get concrete: threat modeling, core principles, mistakes we’ve been repeating since 2010, and how to stop shooting yourself in the foot with your own code.

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Security by design: stop patching holes you dug yourself