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It sounds to me like the safe assumption with software is that no matter how solid your stack is, there are vulnerabilities, potentially catastrophic. A question to folks more experienced than me - if my business depends on software, and I know that my software is almost certainly exploitable, how do I posture my business in such a way as to minimize the impacts of exploits like these?

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When Windows was the predominant desktop OS in the 90s and maybe early 00s (ok, maybe still is), it was so badly insecure that you could be pretty much sure that it would be easy to compromise.

That's when firewalls were widely deployed to provide some layer of protection.

So you can ask yourself, what is the (possibly metaphorical) firewall in the software you depend on?

Is there any way you can decrease attack surface, separate out the most important data in extra-secure (and thus less accessible) systems?

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