The dashboard won’t save you: Why visibility doesn’t improve security

A pink triangle with a red exclamation mark inside on a blue digital landscape.

The way I'd describe the original logic of network security is a crunchy outside and a soft middle.

The perimeter was the defense. Everything inside it was trusted by default – not because anyone made that decision explicitly, but because the model didn't require them to. As long as the outside stayed hard, the inside could stay soft.