Production Security

Definitions

1. The controls, practices, and protections applied specifically to live production environments where real customers, data, and business operations are at stake. Production security typically involves stronger access restrictions, monitoring, change control, and separation from development or test systems.

   In plain English: Security for the live systems that run real business and customer workloads.

   Example: "The engineer could debug safely in staging, but production security blocked direct shell access to the live payment service."

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