What You Cannot Simplify, You Must Contain. What You Cannot Contain, You Must Kill.

Security today is built on layers of complexity that few understand and even fewer control. Teams add new tools, new vendors, new dashboards, and believe that each one makes them safer. In reality, most of it only adds noise, dependencies, and confusion. Every product that claims to solve a problem often creates three more.

Simplicity is not a luxury. It is the only way to survive contact with chaos. A system that cannot be explained cannot be defended. An environment that cannot be mapped cannot be trusted. Complexity hides decay, and what you cannot see will eventually fail in ways you do not expect.

Attack surface management should be the foundation, not a feature. The goal is not to catalog everything endlessly but to question why something exists at all. Every server, account, script, and integration must earn its place. Whatever does not serve a clear and current purpose becomes risk. Anything that increases fragility becomes part of the problem.

Security Brutalism is about discipline. You simplify first. If something cannot be simplified, you contain it. If it cannot be contained, you kill it. Resilience is not built by adding more layers, but by removing everything that does not need to exist.