Daily Insight: Automation | Approval Dialog Inversion

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Assumption Retired: Infrastructure management platforms operate in trusted network positions where authentication requirements are less critical than operational availability.

Insight: Infrastructure management tools that control servers, storage, and firmware are not utilities. They are control planes with inherited authority over every system they orchestrate.

Unresolved Edge: Vulnerability management programs rarely prioritize infrastructure orchestration layers at the same severity as internet-facing applications. No framework exists for treating management plane compromise as equivalent to compromise of all managed assets.