more automation more than just a security issue
For me security is less of a concern when it comes to more automation. Systems and networks are already often built to be how do they say, "soft" on the inside? Generally trusted zones..
For me massive automation comes down to more fear of large scale breakage. Humans are of course error prone but software can fail in pretty spectacular ways too. It's really difficult to make software *really* robust.
As time goes on the more software I see I guess you could say the less faith I have overall in the quality being put out by just about anybody(open or closed source whatever). Also as time goes on my standard for quality continues to inch higher.
The last 15 years of my career have been working in support of software development teams(from an infrastructure perspective generally) making products for others to use primarily you could say in "SaaS" types of environments.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
