Secure defaults every product should ship with
Auth, secrets, logging, and cloud baselines that prevent expensive surprises later.
Security debt is cheapest to avoid on day one. Startups do not need a full SOC 2 program before their first customer — they need defaults that stop the obvious failures: leaked secrets, open admin routes, weak session handling, and cloud buckets that anyone can list.
We push for OAuth/OIDC done properly, secrets out of the repo, least-privilege cloud roles, dependency scanning in CI, and logs that actually help when something breaks. Threat modeling on the critical path beats a long checklist nobody maintains.
Application assessments and hardening still matter before you expose sensitive data or payments. Findings should come with remediation your engineers can ship — not a PDF that ages in email.
Secure defaults are not theater. They are the difference between growing with confidence and freezing the roadmap after an avoidable incident.
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