Beyond Configuration Perfection: Redefining ‘Cloud Security’ by Kat Traxler

This piece argues that fixation on cloud configuration posture and least-privilege can create false confidence and misallocate resources due to cognitive biases, misleading metrics, and vendor-driven reports; it urges a shift to deliberate, System 2, risk-based decision-making that balances governance, detection, response, and recovery, uses meaningful risk-reduction metrics, and adopts frameworks like NIST CSF with shared responsibility across the organization.