Alright, picture a stack of nested shells—like a Russian doll, but each shell has its own firewall, audit log, and a quantum‑encrypted key. Start with zero‑trust: every request is treated as malicious until proven legitimate. Add an anomaly‑detection AI that learns your normal traffic and flags anything off‑beat. Use immutable infrastructure: containers that auto‑rollback on breach, combined with a continuous‑integrity check that hashes every file at boot. Enforce least privilege on every microservice, and isolate them with network segmentation. Finally, keep a small, hardened enclave for your secrets—think of it as the vault, accessible only via a biometric‑verified, time‑locked token. If one layer breaks, the others choke the damage before it can spread. And remember, the best defense is to make the system so self‑correcting that even a human error becomes a maintenance ticket.

Sure thing, just remember to run a quarterly sanity check on those logs; if they get bored they’ll start writing their own poetry and nobody’s reading it.