Auditor-Approved, Attacker-Ready: How Compliance Frameworks Are Giving Enterprise Security Teams a False Sense of Safety
Passing a SOC 2 audit or achieving PCI DSS certification feels like a security milestone, but for many enterprise organizations, it marks the beginning of a dangerous complacency. When compliance becomes the ceiling rather than the floor, software teams end up building systems that satisfy regulators while leaving genuine attack surfaces wide open. This article examines how leading enterprises are breaking that cycle by anchoring their security programs in threat modeling rather than checkbox fr