“Always‑on” reads like “always‑exposed.” For national security, connectivity is not a virtue; it’s a vulnerability. Sovereignty demands enclave‑first isolation and selective, adjudicated flow.
TL;DR:
Enterprises optimized for convenience; adversaries optimized for access. Mission systems must be disconnected by default and selectively connected by exception, with every exception proved, logged, and reversible.
1) The cost of convenience.
Latency looks expensive until compromise arrives. Then the ledger flips. Convenience is the most expensive line item on your risk sheet.
2) Isolation is a control, not a hope.
Air‑gapping, key segregation, and no wireless ingress aren’t “nice to haves.” They are the difference between owning your systems and renting them from your attackers.
3) Exceptions must be sovereign.
When you do connect, it must be through non‑attributional paths you own end‑to‑end. If someone else can persist on your routes, they can persist in your mission.
4) Evidence over empathy.
Operational reality beats user preference. If a connection can’t be proven safe and reversed on demand, it doesn’t ship.
Call to Action:
Stop measuring uptime; start measuring unreachability. If an adversary can’t reach it, they can’t own it.
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