McCauley: Indy 500 cars provide the ideal model for software security
Nathan McCauley · Founding Stories: Anchorage · Jun 24, 2019 · at 6:46
Nathan McCauley, co-founder of crypto custody firm Anchorage, explains his security engineering philosophy on balancing speed and safety.
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“In software engineering organizations, you want to be able to go fast, but you also want to go safely, and so one of the things we've done in the past is we've gone to the Indy 500, and we think that the Indy 500 cars provide a really good model for that. Their express purpose is to go really fast, but when things go bad, the driver still survives, because of all the safety features All of the safety mechanisms that have been put into those cars. We think that that provides a really good model for how you should think about security engineering.”
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