[bluGill]

The cost varies. Some of the code I work with is safety critical - people can die if it isn't working. If someone breaks into our system and gets private data that "only" costs us a lot of money, but if they break into our system and take over the safety critical parts people die.

[daxfohl]

I see, yeah sounds like "control plane" vs "data plane", which is a good place to split things.