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Alexander Thomas at the Cybersecurity Summit.

Spending the day at The Official Cybersecurity Summit.

Uncomfortable truth: breaking software has never been more trivial. The tools required are ubiquitous, reconnaissance is automated, and exploitation is commoditized.

Yet so many still treat security as an afterthought. A checkbox before release. That posture was obsolete >5 years ago. Now it’s malpractice.

Security isn’t a phase, it’s a discipline. Baked in from the first commit, defended on every one after.

We must continue to raise the bar. Then raise it again.

Alexander Thomas
CTO. Architect. Builder.