IT Gives, Security Takes Away, And Configuration Drift Is The Hidden Cost
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
There's an old joke in enterprise tech: IT giveth, and security taketh away. At its best, IT exists to empower people - to give employees faster, better, smarter tools to do their jobs.
As we know no good deed goes unpunished, though, and security inevitably shows up afterward to clean up the risk created by all that empowerment.
In a recent conversation with Colt Blackmore, CTO of Reach Security, he said that this fundamental tension between enabling work and controlling risk has always defined the relationship between IT and security. Today, however, that tension is accelerating into something more dangerous: configuration drift, and Bl