Chaos Engineering for Security: Breaking Things on Purpose to Build Resilience for Malaysian Enterprises

Chaos engineering — intentionally introducing failures to test system resilience — can be applied to security: what happens when a security control fails? Does the system fail open (insecure) or fail closed (secure)? Chaos security testing introduces controlled disruptions: disabling WAF rules, revoking certificates, simulating compromised credentials, breaking network segmentation, and disabling monitoring. This reveals whether security is truly defense-in-depth or whether single points of failure exist.