Exactly right. What we've observed is the most important factor was security must be built in from the start, not bolted on later. We initially struggled with security concerns but found that drift detection with automated remediation worked well. The ROI has been significant - we've seen 70% improvement.

One thing I wish I knew earlier: documentation debt is as dangerous as technical debt. Would have saved us a lot of time.

The end result was 50% reduction in deployment time.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions - happy to share our runbooks and documentation.