Doing a piece on technical debt and cybersecurity. Developers know the term technical debt. When faced with a deadline, peripheral requirements are sacrificed for expediency. The proper course of action is to spend more time to complete a project. Sacrifices cause the solution to deviate and, in the long term, can impact performance, scalability, resilience, or other similar system characteristics.
While not all technical debt can result in negative outcomes, shortcuts, and outdated security and infrastructure can impact your cybersecurity significantly. Not only can efficiency be reduced, but an easy and limited solution can amount to an open door. The organization’s eyes are not on the future and the door gets wider.
In short, you need to do the job right, including modernizing old tech and configuring correctly. You must also adapt to the changing cyber landscape–or increase your vulnerabilities by not doing the job properly.