Identity Is the New Perimeter: Designing IAM for Cloud Environments

by Lee Broders | Sep 28, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Traditional security models placed much of their trust in the network perimeter. Systems inside the corporate network were often treated as more trusted than those outside it. Cloud environments have changed that model. Users, administrators, applications, automation...

Cloud Architecture Reviews: What Should You Actually Be Checking?

by Lee Broders | Sep 21, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

A cloud architecture review should do more than confirm that a diagram exists or that services are running. Its purpose is to understand whether the environment is secure, resilient, supportable and aligned with the organisation’s current and future needs. That...

Architecture Debt: Recognising the Cost of Deferred Decisions

by Lee Broders | Sep 14, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Architecture debt is the accumulated cost of technical decisions that were reasonable, expedient or unavoidable at the time but now make systems harder to change, secure or operate.It can appear as outdated platforms, duplicated services, manual processes, broad...

Building an HLD from a Reverse-Engineered Environment

by Lee Broders | Sep 7, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Building a High Level Design from an existing environment is different from designing a new platform from a blank page. The first challenge is to establish what actually exists today, then separate current-state evidence from the target architecture that should...

Prioritising Security Findings: Fix What Matters First

by Lee Broders | Aug 31, 2026 | DNC Weekly Insight

Security assessments can produce dozens or hundreds of findings. Treating every item as equally urgent creates noise and can direct effort away from the weaknesses that matter most.Good remediation prioritisation combines technical severity with exposure,...