Stop Treating Breaches Like Natural Disasters: A New Mindset for Application Security

Published

2020-06-25 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 02:14

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title: "Stop Treating Breaches Like Natural Disasters: A New Mindset for Application Security"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/stop-treating-breaches-like-natural-disasters"
published_at: "2020-06-25T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["appsec", "risk-management", "secure-development", "mindset", "software-engineering", "security-philosophy"]
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# Stop Treating Breaches Like Natural Disasters: A New Mindset for Application Security

## Summary

Dan Petro introduces Security Determinism — the idea that breaches are predictable results of engineering decisions, not random disasters, making sound engineering the only real fix.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2020-06-25T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/stop-treating-breaches-like-natural-disasters
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4134