Secrets Management / Operational Complexity
Kind: tension
Record: tension:operational-complexity-secrets-management
Canonical: Schema
"secrets-management" (security-core layer) is traded against "Operational Complexity" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Operational Complexity" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Encryption in Transit / Certificate Management and before Privacy by Design / Analytics/Personalization.