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April 2, 2025
David Mcintosh
Technical Debt and Borrowing from the Future
Most organizations believe cybersecurity failures originate from operational mistakes, insufficient tooling, or isolated breaches. In reality, the greater risk lies beneath executive dashboards and compliance metrics: the digital infrastructure itself was never engineered for the adversarial scale on which modern enterprises depend. What appears stable today may simply reflect deferred instability—technical debt transformed into operational exposure.
This creates a structural asymmetry in risk ownership. Leadership incentives reward growth, efficiency, and continuity, while systemic vulnerability remains abstract—until collapse converts technical risk into financial, reputational, and institutional loss. The central question facing executive leadership is no longer whether cybersecurity spending is sufficient, but whether the underlying architecture being defended can sustain the operational future being built upon it.
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