Security automation has prioritized speed over precision, turning response actions into sledgehammers that teams are afraid to deploy. DevOps solved this a decade ago with GitOps, gradual rollouts, and canary deploys, making automation safer, not just faster.
It’s time for security operations to adopt the same principles. Surgical containment is a framework for least-impact, reversible response actions that stop threats without breaking production. By embedding pre-flight validation, partial isolation, and automatic rollback, we can finally…
