COMPEL Glossary / security-by-design
Security by Design
Security by design is the principle of integrating security considerations into the architecture and design of AI systems from the earliest stages of development rather than adding security measures as an afterthought.
What this means in practice
This includes threat modeling during design, secure coding practices during development, security testing before deployment, and security monitoring in production. For organizations, security by design prevents the expensive and often incomplete retrofit of security controls onto systems that were not designed to support them. In COMPEL, security by design is a core principle within the AI Security Architecture framework of Module 3.3, Article 5.
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