Anti-Patterns

ORSM identifies recurring patterns that can make apparently secure architectures operationally fragile.

Identity dependency everywhere

Critical services, administration and recovery all depend on the same identity platform, creating systemic failure potential.

Security tooling sprawl

Controls accumulate faster than the organisation's ability to integrate, maintain and operate them effectively.

One vendor for every control

Concentration may simplify procurement and integration while creating strategic dependency and correlated failure risk.

No recovery testing

Recovery exists as documentation or assumption rather than demonstrated capability.

Control accumulation

New controls are continually added while obsolete, overlapping or low-value controls remain in service.

Compliance-driven design

Architecture is optimised for demonstrating control presence rather than achieving proportionate, survivable security outcomes.

Shadow administration

Operational friction or inaccessible recovery paths encourage unofficial administrative mechanisms and workarounds.