Exactly. While nothing can completely stop attackers, there are multiple techniques you can layer to slow them down. E.g: * Credential vaults that allow only-o

Exactly. While nothing can completely stop attackers, there are multiple techniques you can layer to slow them down. E.g: * Credential vaults that allow only-once retrieval on application startup and only keep credentials in memory * anomaly detectors for request patterns (suspicious payload formats, processing time, CPU/memory usage, etc), * Honeypot records in sensitive data stores (records you know should never be accessed, if they are you've been breached) If you're storing information this sensitive you need to be paranoid, because an attacker has a $4B incentive ($30/identity on the black market * 143 million records) to crack your systems.