The urgent need to progress in modernization, digitization, and security has increased the focus on technical debt.
Cybersecurity teams face many challenges when it comes to implementing the right mix of security controls to protect their organization from cyber-criminals, and Technical Debt is just one major barrier. Technical Debt, according to John Wondolowski, Solutions II CTO, "is the trade-off of short-term benefit…versus long-term value" and is "felt most strongly in the IT Operations and Infrastructure organization.” I would add that given the current landscape, technical debt is, at least, equally as felt on the Security side, if not more so.
Technical Debt is a concept that we've heard a lot about. It conceptualizes the trade-off between the short-term benefit of rapid delivery versus long-term value. Once a company makes the trade-off for rapid delivery without fully weighing the longer-term implications, they create a level of technical debt that will need to be serviced. Much like financial debt is serviced through interest payments, technical debt is serviced through (1) additional resources required to operate and/or (2) constraints for future scalability or agility.
