Zero Security Theatre

Patterns and anti-patterns

Patterns are practices that help when tested. Anti-patterns are common, usually well-intentioned practices that create paperwork without improving the result.

Anti-patterns

  • Treating the privacy notice as a description of the systems

    The notice states intent. Field inventories, access logs, retention queries, and deletion tests state practice. Where they disagree, the systems are the fact.

    Under The dangers of data privacy theatre