Security is rarely designed into systems and architectures from the beginning. Typically, security enters into the design process only after applications are built and security issues arise. While security is often dependent on specific use cases, decades of development provide an opportunity to synthesize common security needs into a set of critical features and embed them into the core underlying systems.

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