Security reviews often arrive too late — after the architecture is set, when every finding is expensive to fix. By then, the choices that mattered have already been made. The teams that stay secure treat it as a design input, not an audit you survive.
Design for least privilege
The most valuable security decisions are structural: separating identity from entitlements, scoping every credential to exactly what it needs, and making access revocable in one place. Get the shape right and whole classes of vulnerability simply can't exist.
Map to controls early
When you know which SOC controls you'll need to satisfy, you can build toward them from day one — logging, retention and access patterns baked in rather than retrofitted. Compliance stops being a scramble and becomes a byproduct of good engineering.
Done this way, a security review confirms what you already built well. Done the other way, it's a list of expensive regrets.