Everyone wants to move fast. Deploy the model, launch the tool, and beat the competition. But the faster you go, the more you expose yourself. Rushed deployments skip safeguards. Vendors oversell. Internal teams cut corners. And the moment something goes wrong, with an exposed endpoint or a biased decision engine, it’s not just your data that suffers. It’s your credibility.
On the other hand, tightening the bolts too much can cause nothing to move. Security leaders slow down everything from procurement to testing. By the time the system clears review, the market has moved on.
There’s no easy middle ground. You need a mindset of calculated speed. Built with agile security baked into the design. Run risk-based reviews, not endless checklists. Use red teams not to block progress but to sharpen it.
