Secure By Default Or Secure By Nobody: How Platform Engineering Fixes Governance
Platform Engineering, Friday, March 6th, 2026
Development cycles are now continuous and highly automated. Infrastructure, APIs and AI models move rapidly through CI/CD pipelines, meaning systems may already be deployed, modified or scaled several times before a retrospective security review even begins.
In environments built on microservices, ephemeral infrastructure and constantly evolving software components, traditional governance approaches struggle to keep pace.
The result is a widening gap between how quickly systems are built and how slowly they are often reviewed for risk. When security checks occur only after deployment, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and policy violations can propagate across environments before they are detected.