defaults - Concepts

Explore concepts tagged with "defaults"

Total concepts: 6

Concepts

Pit of Success - Build systems so that the easiest path is also the right one: people fall into good results by default, and they have to work hard to get things wrong.
Allowlisting - A security approach where you explicitly list what is permitted and deny everything else, instead of trying to list everything that is forbidden.
Escape Hatch - A deliberate, explicit way to bypass an abstraction, convention or safety mechanism when the default path doesn't fit the problem at hand.
Secure by Default - Software should ship with its most secure configuration already switched on, so people are protected without having to do anything.
Saltzer and Schroeder's Design Principles - Eight design principles for building secure systems, published by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder in 1975 and still used as the foundation of security engineering today.
Fail Open vs. Fail Closed - Two opposite ways a system can behave when a component fails: fail open lets everything through, fail closed blocks everything, and choosing between them is a deliberate design decision.