Your question is Security vs Performance Trade-offs. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Discuss the trade-offs between security overhead and system performance in a high-throughput environment.
Explain how you would evaluate controls such as mTLS, encryption, authentication, authorization, and network inspection without weakening protection against credential theft, tampering, unauthorized access, or denial of service. Describe the measurements, architecture decisions, and monitoring you would use to justify the trade-offs.