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Sessions, tokens, SAML, OIDC and the protocols enterprise buyers ask for by name.
It is easy to read a specification and conclude the problem is solved.
A design is a set of bets.
Compliance has a reputation for being paperwork.
There is a specific moment when a deal stops being about your product.
Protocol work looks tedious from the outside and turns out to be where the interesting failures live.
The value of a standard is that two parties who have never spoken can interoperate.
The useful frame is not "is this secure" but "what does an attacker get if this one thing goes wrong, and how quickly would we know".
Shipping is the easy half.
Almost every incident worth writing about starts with something that was working exactly as designed.
Security work is mostly the business of removing footguns before someone finds them.
Most systems do not fail because someone chose the wrong database.
Every pattern here is already implemented in the platform.