Secure by Default / Ease of Initial Use
Kind: tension
Record: tension:ease-of-initial-use-secure-by-default
Canonical: Schema
"secure-by-default" (security-core layer) is traded against "Ease of Initial Use" (security-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Ease of Initial Use" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Zero Trust Architecture / Latency/Complexity and before Attack Surface Reduction / Feature Exposure.